10 Things You Didn't Know About NASA

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Bet you didnt know that Nikki Schwab is a complete and total air head.

vinny of OH 11:05AM September 03, 2009

like who on earth dosent know this stuff?

meg of KS 5:36AM June 02, 2009

Looks like your staff just discovered NASA

John Glenn of KS 12:58PM June 01, 2009

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!

Pruitt of NY 12:47PM June 01, 2009

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 ....

Bill Hacker 12:40PM June 01, 2009

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

Colin of WI 12:26PM June 01, 2009