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Army launched NASA 50 years ago

Fifty years ago, on July 1, 1960, the Army formally lost its space-related missions. Some 4,700 civilian employees, including the von Braun team, and $100 million worth of buildings and equipment at Redstone Arsenal and Cape Canaveral were transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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50th Anniversary Gala Event Carried Live on NASA TV
NASA Television and www.nasa.gov will broadcast a gala event commemorating the agency's Golden Anniversary on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 8 p.m. EDT.

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50 years ago today, on July 29, 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower  signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which lead to the establishment  of NASA.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has joined with Discovery Communications to commemorate the U.S. space agency's 50th anniversary.
The space agency, which was created by the National Aeronautics and Space Act, began operations Oct. 1, 1958.
The partnership was announced Wednesday in New York during a premiere screening of "In the Shadow of the Moon," a film in which crew members from NASA's Apollo missions tell their story. The Discovery Channel will air the world television premiere of the film next summer.

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