NASA at 50: still taking science to the limit

In 50 years, NASA has earned itself an unparalleled reputation as an engineering, technological and scientific pioneer by pushing science to the limit. "Because our mission is flight in all its forms, in space and in the air, we think and work in our engineering and our science at the extremes -- and that's where the greatest discoveries are made," NASA administrator Michael Griffin said in a speech last year. NASA began to conduct space missions within months of its creation on October 1, 1958. "Over the last 50 years NASA has undertaken spectacular programs in human spaceflight, robotic spaceflight,...

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