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Published online 29 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.991
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NASA turns 50
Nature takes you on a slideshow tour of the agency's triumphs and tragedies.
50 years ago today, US president Dwight Eisenhower signed into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, sparking the birth of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration – better known to us as NASA.
The first of nine objectives for NASA in that space act was "The expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and of phenomena in the atmosphere and space".
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