From the moon to the sun .. NASA at its 60th anniversary

The National Administration of Aeronautics and Space (NASA) celebrates the 60th anniversary of its founding on Sunday.

10 facts about the agency that highlights the most important discoveries:

– NASA is the acronym for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. July 29, 1958 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower

– NASA successfully launched its first manned spacecraft in 1961 as part of the Mercury Project (1958-1963).

– President John F. Kennedy, in a historic speech on September 12. September 1962 NASA mission to send humans to the moon, which was completed on July 20, 1969 when astronaut Neil Armstrong landed and walked on the moon for the first time in the history of 39, a composite. Apollo 11. The number of people walking on the moon was 11, all as part of the Apollo project.

NASA made 120 space shuttle flights (sending astronauts by shuttle), but the project suffered two disasters in 1986 and Colombia in 2003). The shuttle made the largest number of flights in space, flying 39 flights between 1984 and 2011.

– NASA launched 166 manned space missions and 1,000 unmanned flights.

– NASA launched the International Space Station project in 1984 with partners from Russia and other countries in 1993. In 2000, astronauts began to live in the station.

– Since 1972, NASA has begun to explore the abstract of the Milky Way. Pioneer 10 Saturn and Jupiter arrived at a speed of 130 thousand kilometers per hour. In 1977, NASA sent Fueger a record of greetings in all world languages, old and new, from Akkadian to Chinese, and various music from Bach and Beethoven.

Here is the first human message to space:

– NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 to systematically capture space images, giving IAEA scientists opportunities to explore space. A million And 300,000 unique views have led them to better understand the universe. NASA launches a new telescope to inherit Hubble by the end of 2018.

One of the most recent discoveries was a planetary group in a distant galaxy of seven neighboring planets with earth-like conditions

]. Two million and 300,000 information on the red planet were sent, including 16,500 images. In 2004, Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars. In 2012, a Corissette vehicle landed on Mars. In June 2018, Coricetti found traces of organic history on Mars. In 2020, NASA will send another vehicle equipped with very advanced imaging techniques and sampling devices

NASA will soon launch a probe to study the atmosphere of the sun, in its first attempt.