United States House Committee on Science and Astronautics

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The Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration was established in 1958 in response to the Soviet Sputnik program in the late 1950s. This select committee drafted the National Aeronautics and Space Act that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It also chartered the permanent House Committee on Science and Astronautics, which officially began on January 3, 1959, and was the first new standing committee established in the House since 1946. The name was changed in 1974 to the Committee on Science and Technology. The name was changed again in 1987 to the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. After the Republican Party gained a majority in Congress in 1994, the name of the committee was changed again to its current name, the "House Committee on Science".

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