10 Things You Didn't Know About NASA
Astronauts recently repaired the Hubble Space Telescope
Reader Comments
I knew all 10 of these thing we alledgedly dont know.
Bet you didnt know that Nikki Schwab is a complete and total air head.
excuse me.......??
like who on earth dosent know this stuff?
You mean 12 things USN&WR Did Not Know
Looks like your staff just discovered NASA
Huh?
What is this, written for five-year-olds? For anyone who reads the papers over the past twenty years, these items would be common knowledge!
And one of them is misleading
NASA was not exactly 'created' by President Eisenhower.
It was simply a name and appropriations/budgeting change from NACA - the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, established 1915 under President Wilson - to add 'Space' to their name and charter. They were already active in it that with rocket test facilities.
Staff, facilities, and programs in-work all transferred from NACA to NASA, and most carried-on.
Orville Wright headed it during the time my late Dad worked there - initially as a rivet inspector on that first full-scale wind tunnel, completed 1931.
Dad left in 1936, as he believed all that could be known about aeronautics had already been discovered by that date.
Go figure ....
Re: Not Many Surprises
yeah I agree I navigated here thinking I would get some unknown or little known facts about NASA but it is mostly generic stuff you can get easily from wikipedia
Not many suprises
Not to seem like a jerk, but I already knew over half of those previous of reading.
