NASA: 60 Years and Counting

NASA: 60 Years and Counting

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#NASA opened for business on Oct. 1, 1958, with T. Keith #Glennan, president of Case Institute of Technology in Ohio, as its first administrator. #NACA director Hugh #Dryden served as the first deputy administrator, and NACA veteran Robert #Gilruth ultimately headed the #Space Task Group and the Mercury program before becoming the director of NASA’s Manned #Spacecraft Center (now the Johnson Space Center) in #Houston.