Gallery: 55 images for NASA’s 55th anniversary

[auric]

This week, NASA celebrated its 55th anniversary. On 29 July 1958, President Eisenhower signed into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which authorized the creation of a new civilian agency named the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The act formalized the United States' predominantly military space operations and also marked the end of the 42-year old National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which previously provided oversight on the existing disparate pre-spaceflight activities underway across the country.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/07/gallery-55-images-for-nasas-55th-anniversary/

Being of an age where Dan Dare ruled the sky this sort of stuff seemed to be happening each and every week. I can even remember joining a queue that slowly snaked around one of a museum in Exhibition Row and at the end of the queue was Freedom 7 or Friendship 7. Good stuff, the right stuff.

 

[TheDecameron]

Lovely stuff......but what are the Chinese doing up there now?

 

[Martin D]

cheers for that, nice one