The official creation day of NASA, or how this abbreviation stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is considered October 1, 1958, but the order to create this organization was signed by American President Dwight David Eisenhower a little earlier, almost two months before this date - July 29. Replacing several state organizations, the oldest of which existed since 1915, this department is flourishing today.
Briefly about the birth of the organization
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an adapted, one might say, literary translation of the name of a state body.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA for short, stands for Russian National Aeronautics and Space Administration, translated literally. This organization was created during the race with the USSR for space exploration, as a response to the launch of the first man-made satellite by the Soviet Union.
The oldest agency replaced by the new structure was the National Advisory (otherwise - deliberative) aeronautics committee, its history began back in 1915. The latest project, whose functions were partially delegated to NASA, was DARPA, the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects, established in February 1958 and is also active now.
What NASA Presents Today
Now NASA (in Russian - NWCA, to be exact) is a US agency actively working in the field of civilian space research.
It reports directly to the country's vice president and government.
The headquarters is located in Washington. For practical scientific activity, several research centers and spaceports have been created. The number of employees has reached almost 19,000 people, and the government finances huge amounts of money in the organization. In 2017, NASA's budget amounted to almost $ 20 billion.
The results of the studies and observations of the aeronautical administration are not confidential and are available for copying, being considered the public domain. You may not know how NASA stands for decoding, but almost everyone has heard about the direction of the organization behind this abbreviation.
Weekdays of Space Research
All research and aerospace centers, to one degree or another, are working in four main, strategically important areas:
- space exploration;
- Earth exploration on a planetary scale;
- people, including the development of tracking and control equipment;
- creation of a technical base for the implementation of new projects.
The organization has won a prestigious international award - the Gold Medal of the Higher Council for Scientific Research and many other really important achievements.
There are sad pages in the history of NASA - the death of 14 astronauts during two unsuccessful shuttle launches.
Due to these incidents and the high cost of development in the space industry, which significantly slows down and complicates the process, twice in the history of the existence, the U.S. National Aeronautics Administration was left without active manned spacecraft, and was forced to cooperate with Roscosmos.
That is why, since 2016, the Russian language has been included in the training program for American astronauts. So now, US space pilots will be able to independently read and find out how NASA stands for Russian.
Contact with an alien civilization: was it or not?
The story of 20 years ago, not refuted, but never confirmed.
According to a Russian source, almost simultaneously two magazines published information that in 1998, NASA received a coded signal from an alien civilization. An international team of specialists worked to understand it.
It took many years to decrypt it (about 13, as reported) and when the message was finally decoded, it turned out that 80,000 years ago, a highly developed civilization living outside our Galaxy reported that it was in distress, asked for help and gave the coordinates of your planet.
This signal also speaks of the sender's limited ability to interplanetary travel. Allegedly, the development of aliens reached its peak at the dawn of human life, and eventually turned into a cataclysm of planetary proportions.
The call for help came too late to NASA staff, and how this message is deciphered has been a mystery for a very long time, so even the fact of such contact was hidden from the public, in order to avoid unnecessary mass unrest.
What is it? A fake designed to glorify information portals, and possibly affect the minds of people striving to create more and more powerful weapons, or is information classified for the time being? So far, one can only guess.