This is the most awesome multimedia site I’ve ever seen; it’s dedicated to NASA’s 50th Anniversary, and has animation, video and audio clips of historic moments in the past fifty years of space exploration…
www.nasa.gov/externalflash/50th/main.html
Explore the amazing fifty year history of American’s space program as NASA celebrates it’s 50th Anniversary…
www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/historyLetter.html
http://history.nasa.gov/
50 Years of NASA History (The Space Agency Press Release:)
NASA’s birth was directly related to the launch of the Sputniks and the ensuing race to demonstrate technological superiority in space. Driven by the competition of the Cold War, on July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space [...]