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The agency's "profound influence" should inspire the next generation of scientists, professor Stephen G. Alexander writes.

NASA's missions have inspired generations of young people to pursue the sciences. Patrick Semansky/APSixty-five years ago, in 1958, several government programs that had been pursuing spaceflight combined to form NASA. At the time, I was only 3 years old. I’ve now been a professor of physics and astronomy for nearly 30 years, and I realize that, like countless others who came of age in the 1960s and ‘70s, NASA’s missions have had a profound effect on my life and career p...

Philippine Canadian Inquirer 65 years of NASA – an astrophysicist reflects on the agency’s legacy Science

NASA’s missions have inspired generations of young people to pursue the sciences.

In the fall of 1962, a little airplane manufacturer on Long Island, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, beat out ...