[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex and NASA
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:26:51 -0400
At 12:20 PM 4/6/2010, David Sadowski wrote:
>NASA was created by act of Congress in 1958. The bill was signed into
>law by President Eisenhower, who was in favor of the creation of a
>civilian space agency. NASA absorbed a 46-year old government group
>called the NACA that was 46 years old and had 8,000 employees.
Uh, how rapidly we forget?
Eisenhower did not give a damn about the Space
Race. This probably cost Nixon the race in 1960.
NASA was the dreamchild of the Senate Majority
Leader, Liein' Lyndon Johnson. He drafted the
legislation. He sat on the House of
Representatives to get them to pass it. He then
forced it through the Senate. Eisenhower, off in
la-la land, then signed the bill, one of his more
stupid actions in a life full of stupid decisions
-- Eisenhower, by my count, made ONE really good
decision but, for the rest, it was all dumb
calls. And I have an "I Like Ike" button next to
me, a button I wore in 1956. Idiot though
Eisenhower was, he certainly was better than
Adlai Stevenson to serve as President.
There is a reason why the Johnson Space Flight
Center is named, well, the Johnson Space Flight
Center. NASA honors its founder.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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