Help NASA EDGE Celebrate 50 years of NASA!

During 2008, NASA EDGE will be covering some very cool and exciting topics on exploration.  We also will be highlighting some major achievements during the past 50 years.  We would like to hear from you! Please post a comment on what you think are some of the most memorable NASA achievements over the past 50 years.  Feel free to share any funny stories on missions or projects.  We hope to get comments from the early days of NASA to the present.  Maybe one of your comments or stories will make a NASA EDGE show.



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Chris
NASA EDGE Host

46 thoughts on “Help NASA EDGE Celebrate 50 years of NASA!”

  1. I think the most obvious one is landing on the moon. Some other great accomplishments would be the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity (concrete evidence of water on the surface of Mars at one point in time), the Cassini/Hyugens project (greating increasing our knowledge of Saturn and its moons), the Explorer satellite (our first orbiting satellite), Genesis (the first actual analyzation of material from our Sun), the International Space Station (the first major international cooperative mission in space), the Viking missions (the first spacecraft to successfully land on the surface of another planet), Deep Impact (the first interception of a comet), Stardust (the first mission to bring back material from a comet), GOES (a constant weather monitoring system that has greatly increased our understanding of the atmosphere), the Hubble Space Telescope (I don’t think much of an explanation is needed there), the Pioneer spacecraft (the farthest human made object in the solar system), and Voyager (the first mission to analyze several outer planets in a row, among other things). Then again, I’m just a general nerd who thinks everything NASA does is amazing. 😛

  3. You’re right!!!!!!! Sorry, my unmanned spaceflight love took over. 🙁 You guys are the best podcast ever!!!!

  4. 50 years of NASA! Now that’s cool! I had a star party on that day, with cake and stuff. It was fun.
    I think one of the most important lanuches was of the Apollo 11 to the moon! It was the coolest thing, even though I wasn’t born then.

  5. I have to agree with Zara on the human spaceflight side. Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon will always be remembered. On the robotic side, I would say the Mars rovers are the greatest exploration achievements over the past 50 years. I believe they were only designed to last 3 months or so. Look at them now. They are still sending back awesome pictures and important data.

    Just think what we will be saying 50 years from now!

  6. I have a nagging question about the Deep Impact Mission to Comet Temple 1. With the force of about 5 tons of TNT that was delivered to Temple 1, how much deflection to the orbit was the result of this impact. Could this cause Temple 1 to become an impactor itself? As I tell my kids ‘What you do now determines what happens later.’ Have we set the line of dominos on an unexpected track? Something to think about and I haven’t seen any discussion on the subject.

  7. Some of my greatest memorable NASA achievements are:

    * the birth of (NASA)-National Aeronautics and Space Administration on October 1, 1958 🙂
    * The lunch of its first earth satellite (Explorer-I) on January 31st, 1958.
    * The successful Apollo 7 mission in October 1968.
    * The successful Apollo 8 mission, which orbited the Moon on December 24-25, 1968.
    * The successful landing of Apollo 11 mission on July 20th, 1969.
    * The successful of other crazy missions like Apollo 12,13,14,15,16,17 and all the other crazy missions.
    * The successful of building space rockets, lunching things and failing 🙂
    * Sending live animals into space with the launch of Challenger flight STS-51B on April 28, 1985 🙂
    * the successful launch of the Hubble Space Telescope astronomical observatory into orbit.
    * And at last, the successful of celebrating 50 years of NASA 🙂 haha

    Thus are some of 10 achievements, please add yours so the total can be 50 😉 hahaha

    I Just remember of all this, my first and last time I visited Kennedy Space Center (NASA) Florida in 2000, 7 years ago. I hope that I will visit NASA again and I hope the other next 50 years of NASA will be successful in Space age of exploration and searching for life beyond our planet earth and beyond our Galaxy-the Milky Way.

  9. I wasn a secretary for most of that last 50 years. I loved every minute of it observing the beginning and ending of a lot of manned space flight programs from Apollo through Skylab, Apollo Soyuz Test Project, Space Shuttle then the communications era of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites. We don’t want to let the engineers and scientists down (past and present) for all their hard work. Keep the money coming!!!

  11. The 50th anniv logo is ver’ cool, I love it. Saw Peggy Whitson wearing a t-shirt with this logo on it on ISS. I want one, and it better be reversable! (Ask the host, he knows why Blair, it’s the argyle sock thing again. Great minds, what can I say?)

    Anyway, there are so many things NASA has done in the last 50 years, I can’t think of anything I use daily that in some ways hasn’t been touched by NASA. From cell phones to computers, medicines, foods, air and auto innovations and comfy astronaut foam beds, this tiny agency has powered the economy on 1/6 of 1% of the discretionary budget for our nation, amazing! Imagine if MORE money were available??

    Chris (argyle-socked-non-host)

  14. THANKS NASA : I’AM WILLIAM E. PEREZ 53 YEARS OLD.AN ELECTRONICS ENGINEER IN INSTRUMENTATION CERTIFIED IN COLLAGE .FROM MIAMI, FLA.USA.I,AM NOW IN TAMPA,FLA. THANKS MR. DRYDEN ,PRESIDENT JFK. ,DE ,AND GEORGE W. BUSH . FOR THE PAST AND NEAR FUTURE OF SPACE HISTORY TO BE MADE FOR US AS A CIVILIZATION .

  15. Hey guys! im just a 15 year old girl, but i love NASA! I love space, and i have always dreamed of going to space, i dont think im brave enough though! 🙂 But i think that your best missions are the ones that sent people to space. just think about it. just a couple of decades ago, people would call you crazy, but look at NASA now! and ALL their accomplishments. I congratulate you on 50 amazing years of accomplishments! 🙂

  17. Guest wrote:

    “Best one for me is the robots were sent to Mars”

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  18. Guest wrote:

    “Best achievement to me is the robots that were sent to Mars, this definitely helped uncover some myths about the Red planet.”

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  19. Guest wrote:

    “Hubble telescope was great, then it got blurry now great again.
    Apollo 10
    Mars Rover”

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  20. Guest wrote:

    “Undeniably the most memorable one would be the manned mission to the moon. Among the more recent ones, the Mars exploration mission.”

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  21. A guest wrote:

    “Golfing on the moon! Congrats and here’s to your next 50…”

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  22. Angel wrote:

    “Good Nasa has 53 yaers now, I hope that some day share all its knowledges with the rest of the world…”

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  23. A Guest wrote:

    “We hope to get comments from the early days of NASA to the present. good post!!!!!!”

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  24. Angel wrote:

    “Good NASA has 53 years now, I hope that some day it will share all its knowledges with the rest of the world”

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  25. A Guest wrote:

    Golfing on the moon! Congrats and here’s to your next 50…”

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  26. A Guest wrote:

    “Congratulations. I dream of the day we can live on the moon! I even made personalized NASA pens in honor of the 50 years.

    Thanks guys!”

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  27. Dafa wrote:

    “Good 50 years NASA EDGE Celebrate..

    me”

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  28. “One of the biggest – and most talked about – stories in NASA history has been the moon landing conspiracy. That has to be one of the most memorable events in NASA history. I mean, the conspiracy theory has been tested over and over by independent conspiracy theorists and the results always conclude that Neal Armstrong did land on the moon and it wasn’t some sort of government conspiracy – so get over it people!

    Thanks,
    Joe E”

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  29. “Congratulations to NASA. Always the inspiration, always the heart, Im really proud of the discoveries they made in the years.”

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  30. “Happy 50’s ;)”

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  31. “happy 50th anniversary NASA

    thanks,
    gennie chan”

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  32. “Im very excited to see this! I can’t believe its been 50 years!

    Brian”

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  33. “It is my pleasure to read this article,I look forward to reading more.”

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  34. “What are NASA’s plans for deep space exploration in the near future?”

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  35. “Hey Glad to hear about your anniversary. I will really appreciate if you let me become a part of your community”

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  36. “congrats NASA on 50 years as well as space exploration you have contributed so many discoveries such as teflon for example to the general public.”

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  37. this is pretty awesome! congratulation NASA, 50 years!

    -Jason

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  38. thanks for the nice piece of information. to much information

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  39. hi

    this is great info..

    first wish u all the for Celebrate 50 years of NASA!

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  42. Congratulations to NASA for celebrating their 50th year. I’m looking forward to see the most memorable NASA achievements over the past 50 years. Great Job NASA!

  43. “NASA has been putting extra marvelous efforts to maintain their dignity,and i thing NU-star is going to be a big achievement factor for NASA. Best of luck.”

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  44. “wonderful information, I had come to know about your blog from my friend nandu , hyderabad,i have read atleast 7 posts of yours by now, and let me tell you, your website gives the best and the most interesting information. This is just the kind of information that i had been looking for, i’m already your rss reader now and i would regularly watch out for the new posts, once again hats off to you! Thanks a ton once again,

    Regards,

    Temple”

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  45. “Thank you so much for sharing this information.”

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  46. “Congratualtions on 50 Years. So many achievements and so little time.
    Man walking on the moon and the latest rover to mars are my highlights.”

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