Dwight David Eisenhower1 October 1958
NASA begins operations, absorbing the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and becoming the civilian space agency.
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NASA begins operations, absorbing the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and becoming the civilian space agency.
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