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Question 1

In which calendar year was the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officially established?

Question 2

Which Soviet satellite launch in October 1957 shocked the American public and triggered the 'Sputnik crisis'?

Question 3

Which pioneer government aviation agency, founded in 1915, was absorbed and replaced by NASA?

Question 4

Which U.S. President signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law in July 1958?

Question 5

Who served as the very first Administrator of NASA from 1958 to 1961?

Question 6

Which powerful Senate Majority Leader—and future president—spearheaded the congressional passage of the Space Act?

Question 7

What famous retro nickname is given to NASA's original 1959 circular blue logo featuring a red chevron?

Question 8

What German-American rocket pioneer and his ballistic missile team in Huntsville were transferred to NASA in 1960?

Question 9

What was the name of America's first human spaceflight program, initiated by NASA in October 1958?

Question 10

Which historic research laboratory in Hampton, Virginia, founded in 1917, was NASA's oldest field center?

In which calendar year was the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officially established?