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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the United States of America space agency, and have sent various probes and spaceships out to investigate Earth's neighboring planets and the Solar system.

NASA was established in 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act. It does the majority of travel into space, but to get there it must do a lot of research into the giving field. The motto of NASA is "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research."

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Space Race

The Untied States of America perceived the first ever human-made satellite a threat, it was launched by the Russians and it was perceived as a national/technological security threat. This was known as the Sputnik crisis. Several months of debate produced an agreement that a new federal agency was needed to conduct all non-military activity in space. DARPA was also created at this time and many of DARPA's early space programs were soon transferred to NASA. The United states succeeded and later released Satellite 1958 Alpha which was there first artificial satellite. When NASA first started it looked much different it had only 80 staff and ran its operation out of four laboratories.

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