NASA Turns 50

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Posted by kdawson on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @03:19AM from the make-a-wish dept.

phobos13013 writes "Fifty years ago yesterday, in 1958, President Eisenhower signed the United States Public Law 85-568, National Aeronautics and Space Act to create NASA. In the fifty years since its creation, NASA has made manned missions landing on the Moon, put a space station in orbit, launched numerous unmanned missions to the Moon, Mars, the solar system, and beyond, as well as launching reusable manned spacecraft in orbit. Some of the failures included the loss of two manned spacecraft and their crews as well as the loss of the Apollo 1 crew during a training mission. Although the future of the organization is in question, Americans, and the world, are looking forward to another fifty years of progress including a return trip to the Moon and an eventual manned mission to Mars."

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ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:3, Funny)

by Digitus1337 ( 671442 ) writes: <lk_digitus@h[ ]ail.com ['otm' in gap]> on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @03:25AM (#24398013) Homepage

I'll go ahead and start us off.

We obviously didn't land on the moon, check out the alleged videos, the astronauts jump but don't fly away. Learn some science, you people are sheep.

That should do it, please discuss.

Re:Wowzers! (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @03:28AM (#24398033)

You failed to capitalize the first word of your sentence. Never post again.

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:5, Funny)

by oodaloop ( 1229816 ) writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @03:31AM (#24398045)

Exactly. The moon landing was obviously filmed in a studio in the Hollow Earth. Gravity is lower inside the Earth, since there is more mass on all sides, so it was the perfect location to fake the landing. It was also filmed inside the largest vaccuum chamber ever built to replicate the lack of air on the moon. I don't understand why more people haven't realized these obvious truths.

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:5, Funny)

by rarel ( 697734 ) writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @03:37AM (#24398073) Homepage

i ve seen the space shuttle ass hole it definetly landed on the moon do some research...

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @03:44AM (#24398111)

i ve seen the space shuttle ass hole

It has one of those?

Space cake! (Score:2, Funny)

by Mister Liberty ( 769145 ) writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @04:13AM (#24398241)

Happy anniversary!

Re:Great things will happen in the next 50 years (Score:2, Funny)

by iminplaya ( 723125 ) writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @04:18AM (#24398275) Journal

...Spain, England and the Dutch took up the effort and built globe spanning empires.
Not exactly something to be proud of, considering how they did it and all. It just means that the Chinese will be enslaving little green men to toil in their underground sugar cave. And I for one...

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:3, Funny)

by initialE ( 758110 ) writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @04:48AM (#24398411)

This'll larn you for making jokes w/o a citation - http://xkcd.com/202/ [xkcd.com]
Mod back up pls

NASA retirement party anyone? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @06:07AM (#24398835)

Is NASA going to retire, or is it going to do the standard boomer thing of working until it dies because of no retirement plans.

Thank you, Captain Obvious (Score:4, Funny)

by 6Yankee ( 597075 ) writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @06:13AM (#24398857)

"Fifty years ago yesterday, in 1958"
I presume this was for the benefit of any NASA engineers who can't convert between metric and Imperial years?

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:1, Funny)

by OneMadMuppet ( 1329291 ) writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @06:15AM (#24398863) Homepage

Nope, they filmed it on Mars, using the lower gravity to save money.

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:3, Funny)

by oodaloop ( 1229816 ) writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @06:44AM (#24399021)

That's just ridiculous. Mars has an atmosphere. You can clearly see the dust immediately settling after the astronauts step, indicating there is no atmosphere. Am I expected to believe they built a huge vaccuum chamber on Mars? What kind of fool do you take me for...for which you take...that for which...For what kind of fool do you take me?

WMD seen on the moon and mars (Score:2, Funny)

by nexttech ( 1289308 ) writes: on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @09:53AM (#24400871)

There, That should help them get funding. George please take note.

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ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Wowzers! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:5, Funny)

Space cake! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Great things will happen in the next 50 years (Score:2, Funny)

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:3, Funny)

NASA retirement party anyone? (Score:1, Funny)

Thank you, Captain Obvious (Score:4, Funny)

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:ah, for a moon landing flame war... (Score:3, Funny)

WMD seen on the moon and mars (Score:2, Funny)

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