SPACE IS A MAGICAL LAND OF ADVENTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!
By: Jayla Johnson
Lets Learn Abot NASA
- The space age began Oct.4,1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik1
- A year later the United States passed the N.A.S.A to program
- According to the 1958 act,NASA's function are to conduct research on problems of flight within Earth's atmosphere
- The planing and control of NASA's activities take place at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C
- The Aerospace development of advanced air and space transportation technology.
- The space Science enterprise studies the nature of the universe through NASA's telescope and unmanned space probe.
- Human Exploration and Development of Space (H.E.D.O.S) is responsible for all facet of the Space Transportation (STS) ,or space shuttle
- NASA has ten chief field installation.
- The Houston installation is a command control center in Houston,Texas and the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral,Florida
- In 1969 Alan Shepard was sent into space.
- Feb.1,2003 , when Columbia broke apart about 40miles (60kilometers) over Texas as it returned from its orbital mission and reentered the atmosphere.
- NASA is responsible for the development and launching of the number of satellites
- The agency"s major accident was the death at applo1 astronaut Virgil Grissom
- the entire crew of seven died.
- the Biological and physical research unit investigates the effects of space travel on humans .
- The enterprise also directs projects that use space as a low - gravity laboratory for biology, chemistry, and physics.
- the following year John H, Glen got famous for putting two man on the moon in July 1969..
- A fire swept through the command module during a preflight test
- A second fatal space shuttle occured
- NASA is a space station