On July 29, 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower founded the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) promoting the peaceful applications of space science.
In reality, the United States had been threatened by the USSR, which had launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite in history, on October 4, 1957.
For the next 12 years, the USSR and the US competed in a tough space race. The Soviets managed to send the first living being into space (the dog Laika), the first man (Yuri Gagarin) and the first woman (Valentina Tereshkova), and they made the first space walk.
But soon NASA was able to take the lead Launching the Apollo moon landing missions, through which it placed the first human being on our natural satellite The Skylab space station, and later the space shuttle were its next achievements.
In the 90s he led the exploration beyond our solar system, with the detection of exoplanets in distant stars and the improvement of the knowledge of various bodies in our cosmic neighborhood Today efforts are focused on exploring Mars with robots and sending the first human to our neighboring planet.
