🪐 Space and stars 🔭 Space travel and observatories

NASA

📖 In short

NASA is the American space agency; its name stands for “National Aeronautics and Space Administration”. Founded in 1958, it has thousands of scientists and engineers, and it sent the first people to the Moon.

🤩 Did you know?

NASA was founded in 1958.
The first man landed on the Moon in 1969.
The International Space Station goes around the Earth about every 90 minutes.
The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most powerful telescopes, launched by NASA and its partners.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 The trip to the Moon

In 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on its surface; it was the first time a human walked on another world.

🔍 The space shuttle

NASA built the space shuttle, a craft that took off like a rocket and came back to land like a plane, and used it for many years to carry astronauts and satellites.

💡 Probes to the planets

NASA has sent robotic probes to every planet in the solar system, and rovers that drive on Mars, photographing its rocks and looking for signs of water.

🎯 Working together

NASA works with other space agencies, like Europe's, Japan's, Russia's and Canada's, on the International Space Station, and Arab space agencies take part in space projects too.