Happy Birthday NASA!

On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act that would result in the creation of NASA. 

Lyndon B. Johnson was Senate Majority Leader at the time, and oversaw efforts to pass legislation to accelerate the American space effort.

NASA officially began operations on October 1, 1958.

-from the Presidential Timeline

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