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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA was created by the US Congress in 1958 to provide a coordinated governmental effort into flight within and outside the Earth’s atmosphere. Answering President Kennedy’s call to put a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, NASA achieved that goal when Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969. NASA continues manned and unmanned space exploration, operates the Hubble Space Telescope and coordinates the construction of the International Space Station. Good Hollywood films on NASA include The Right Stuff (1983) and Apollo 13 (1996).
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Culture
- Category: American culture
- Company: Routledge
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