WOLF(@WOLF_Financial):68 YEARS AGO TODAY, NASA OPENED ITS DOORS The agency began operations on October 1, 1958, two months after President Eisenhower signed the act creating it in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik. It started with about 8,000 employees taken over from its predecessor, NACA, along with three research labs. Today NASA has a budget of about $24.4 billion, and private companies like SpaceX now fly many of the missions it used to run itself.

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2026.10.02 01:07

68 YEARS AGO TODAY, NASA OPENED ITS DOORS The agency began operations on October 1, 1958, two months after President Eisenhower signed the act creating it in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik. It started with about 8,000 employees taken over from its predecessor, NACA, along with three research labs. Today NASA has a budget of about $24.4 billion, and private companies like SpaceX now fly many of the missions it used to run itself.