National Aeronautics and Space Act

That year, a new agency was also born.

President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act in July 1958, and NASA opened for business on the 1st of October in temporary offices at the Dolley Madison House in Washington.

NASA's history page says it took over from an older organization, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and began with eight thousand employees and an annual budget of a hundred million dollars.

Its first administrator was T. Keith Glennan.

But if you have any idea of how you can help NASA solve their problems through your company, NASA with the current administration, they have, they want to push a lot of work to the industry and to other government partners to collaborate with NASA.

And we have also streamlined the process so it used to be really, really, it used to take about a year to two years to get agreements, and we call them space act agreements.

It used to take one year to two years to get this space act agreement through the system.

You have no idea how much bureaucracy we had to go through just to get one agreement in place.

I had the opportunity to do a six month detail to tackle that problem.

Yes.

So we can get...

And I was the first... to incorporate $60 million worth of Space Act agreements within, I would say, two weeks.

Because when NASA gets into the act, the act gets into the act.

That is the Space Act.

NASA was created back in 1958 by an act of Congress which mandates the widest and appropriate dissemination of all the science results.

Bottom line is, There's very little in terms of data that NASA can, by law, keep secret.

I got my dirty boots and I'm going.

July 29th, U.S. President Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 establishing NASA.

Neat.

Yeah.

Today in 1890, Yosemite National Park was established when President Benjamin Harrison signed legislation protecting the area.

And today in 1958, NASA officially began operations after the National Aeronautics and Space Act created the new civilian space agency.

And today, October 1st, is pretty much a remarkable date for Walt Disney World history.

Both Walt Disney World opened to the public in 1971, October 1st, 1971, with Magic Kingdom, and exactly 11 years later, on October 1st, 1982, Epcot Center was opened to the public.