When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, the Space Race exploded as the U.S. and Soviet Union competed to show their ...

National Aeronautics and Space Act was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, creating NASA. With that move, the ...

On this day in 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law legislation creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Mounting pressures of a space race between the United States ...

This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by The Weather Network that features stories about people, communities, and events and how weather impacted them. On Tuesday, July 29, 1958, the National ...

On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed a bill to create the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA. The Congressional bill's full title was: "National Aeronautics and Space Act ...

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Explorer 1 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Jan. 31, 1958. * Image: Courtesy of NASA * 1958: The United States enters the space age with the successful launch of the Explorer I satellite.

On this day in 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower signed into law legislation creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When the fledgling agency began operations on Oct. 1, 1958, it ...