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On July 29, 1958, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the National Law on Aeronautics and Space – and that is how NASA was born.
Today marks the 60th anniversary of that fateful day, and NASA performed incredible feats at that time.
In 1951 Alan Shepard became the first American in space, Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon in 1969 (something Shepard did in 1971) and in 1983 Sally Rider became the first woman in the space.
In 2001, the first crew of three made their home in the International Space Station and there are currently six crew members on board – three Americans (Andrew Feustel, Richard Arnold and Serena Auñón-Chancellor) , two Russians (Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev) and a German (Alexander Gerst) during the expedition 56/57.
NASA has always been the gateway to the unknown and unexplored. They are America's link with everything around us and their missions and research is fundamental to knowing what we know about space today.
To celebrate this success, we have assembled a gallery of their most incredible images of the last six decades.
Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969, at the first image of the Earth taken in 1960 and Bruce McCandless II becoming the first man without a link in space in 1984 – you can see them by clicking on the gallery above.
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