when was the nasa website created
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John F. Kennedy The National Aeronautics and Space Act, which was signed into law on July 29, 1958, was intended to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes..
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Project Gemini NASA approved Project Gemini on December 7, 1961. The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was contracted to build it on December 22, 1961. When it was publicly announced on January 3, 1962, it was formally re-christened Project Gemini. Gemini in Latin means twins or double, which reflected that the spacecraft would hold two astronauts.
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What does NASA Stand For? NASA Full Form : National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA is a government agency of the United States which is responsible for the space related research and is also responsible for the space programs involving civilians. It was established by president Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958.
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- The NeXT computer used by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 to create the world's first website. Berners-Lee's site went live in 1991, and was accessed by a decidedly small audience of fellow CERN researchers. It wasn't until 1993, when web browser Mosaic was released, that the Web took off, as Wired explained last year.
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- (NASA) November 20, 2013 — A new type of sunrise dawned above Earth on Nov. 20, 1998, with the launch of the first piece of the International Space Station.
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- And in 1991 the World Wide Web was released to the public and, on a personal note, Richard T. Griffiths (famous for his phrase 'a user friendly interface is a secretary') got kicked into Word Perfect and was launched into cyber-space.
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- The NASA 50th anniversary logo celebrates the agency's history and future. Image Credit: NASA. The agency also creates symbols for major events, like the NASA 50th anniversary in 2008. The design of the logo uses the zero in 50 to evoke an eclipse and includes a Hubble Space Telescope image of M81, a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way in which our solar system is located.
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History of Wikipedia The History of Wikipedia formally began with the launch of Wikipedia on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger; however, its technological and conceptual underpinnings predate this.he earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993, but the concept of a free-as-in-freedom online encyclopedia (as distinct from mere open source or freemium) was proposed by Richard Stallman in December 2000.
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- APRANET itself was set up in 1958 for the US DoD (Department of Defense), 60,000 computers communicated for communication among research organizations and Universities, and worked on a variety of projects. But, as per above, what is now the Internet didn't first come online until 1969.
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NASA Research Park In 1958, Congress created NASA with the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, 42 U.S.C. § 2451 et seq. The Ames Aeronautical Laboratory was renamed Ames Research Center and became a NASA field center. Ames is nearing 70 years of age, which it calls “Seven Decades of Innovation,” highlighted with major accomplishments in aeronautics and space.
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Who We Are National Alliance of Sentencing Advocates and Mitigation Specialists. You are here. Who We Are. Founded in 1992, the National Alliance of Sentencing Advocates & Mitigation Specialists (NASAMS) is the only national organization devoted to the educational and professional development of sentencing advocates and mitigation specialists.
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- Launching NASA. With this simple preamble, the Congress and the President of the United States created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA's birth was directly related to the pressures of national defense.
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BIBLICAL ASTROLOGY He joined NASA as an astronaut in September 1969 during the Apollo Program. He was on the support crew for the Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. He was the Pilot of the first flight of the Space Shuttle, STS-1, April 12-14, 1981. He was the Commander of three more Shuttle missions in 1983-84.
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NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed on July 29, 1958, disestablishing NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The new agency became operational on October 1, 1958. Since that time, most US space exploration efforts have been led by NASA, including the Apollo Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station, and later the Space Shuttle.
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- Launching NASA. An Act to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes.. With this simple preamble, the Congress and the President of the United States created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958.
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- NASA TV is the television service of the United States government agency NASA. The -Media Channel- is dedicated to broadcast news organizations and other members of the press, featuring press release video, interviews, mission press conferences and other services.
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History of the web browser When released on 8 June 1993 it was one of the first graphical web browsers, and the first to run on Windows: Windows 3.1, NT 3.5, and OS/2. However, the explosion in popularity of the Web was triggered by NCSA Mosaic which was a graphical browser running originally on Unix and soon ported to the Amiga and VMS platforms, and later the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms.
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NASA established During the next decade, NASA became synonymous with the space race. In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced that the United States should set a goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
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The International Space Station (ISS) International Space Station (ISS) The International Space Station (ISS) Construction of the International Space Station began on 20 November 1998 when the American-funded, Russian-built Zarya module was launched into orbit around Earth. Sixteen countries are involved in the project.
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- The governmental institution known as NASA is a department of the Executive Branch, ultimately answerable solely to the President of the United States, an Agency created through the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.
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Apollo Apollo, Moon-landing project conducted by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the 1960s and ’70s. The Apollo program was announced in May 1961, but the choice among competing techniques for achieving a Moon landing and return was not resolved until considerable further study. In the method ultimately employed, a powerful launch vehicle (Saturn V rocket) placed a 50-ton spacecraft in a lunar trajectory.
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Space Shuttle program Its official program name was Space Transportation System, taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982.
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- Subsequent final assembly of the spacecraft did not take place until 1985. The year 1983 did have its own notable events however, with the founding of the Space Telescope Science Institute at the John Hopkins University in Maryland. A part of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), the institute would be in charge of Hubble's scientific program.
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- Within months of its creation, NASA began to conduct space missions, and over the last 50 years has undertaken spectacular programs in human spaceflight, robotic spaceflight, and aeronautics research. NASA today carries on the nation’s long tradition of exploration dating back at least to Lewis and Clark.
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NASA NASA turned its attention to an Apollo-derived temporary space laboratory, and a semi-reusable Earth orbital shuttle. In the 1990s, funding was approved for NASA to develop a permanent Earth orbital space station in cooperation with the international community, which now included the former rival, post-Soviet Russia.
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NASA Research Park The U.S. Congress originally established Ames Research Center (Ames) in 1939 as the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory under the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).