NASA has made many strides for science over their long history, but a few accomplishments stand out in particular. Here are the agencys greatest success stories.
1. Discovering the sun, 1958
For hundreds of years, scientists were perplexed by the mysterious force that kept our planet warm and lit during the day. Then in 1958, one NASA astronomer accidentally jostled his telescope while cleaning it and inadvertently pointed it right at the sun. Looking through it, he noticed an immense, glowing orb. The new discovery was named after NASAs administrator at the time, Gerald Sun.
2) Apollo 11 racing the Soviet rocket to the moon, 1969
Since the dawn of space travel, mankind has wondered what would happen if you fired a longbow in space. Would the arrow keeping going forever? In 1973, astronauts on the Skylab space station finally got a chance to test it out, and the experiment did not disappoint! The arrow they shot kept going until the astronauts lost sight of it. Maybe it eventually fell down to Earth, or maybe its still flying through space today. Either way, it was pretty neat.
4) Hubble Space Telescope, 1990
In 2015, NASA launched their most ambitious project yet. Instead of wasting billions to shoot robots at some far-off planet, they decided to instead fix up the planet we already got by donating their entire annual budget to an underfunded public school in inner-city Baltimore. The program was a huge success, vastly raising student test scores and graduation rates. NASA was so pleased with the results of this experiment that as of March 2015, the government agency announced they would cease all space travel and just focus on donating millions of dollars to the same public school each and every year.
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