It was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Not John F. Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson as is sometimes mistakenly believed.
While President Nixon was a big supporter of space exploration, it was President Kennedy who actually started federal funding to finance it. It could be said, Kennedy started the space race.
If you are speaking of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as the space program, then neither Presidents John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson passed funding for NASA. NASA started in July 1958 with President Dwight Eisenhower passing the bill that allows funding for NASA with funding which was in June 1958.
Monkeys started going into space in the 1960s for President Kennedy when he decided to send monkeys into space.
It was Nikita Khrushchev, though his official title was Premier, not President.
Dwight Eisenhower was the President on October 1, 1958 when NASA was created.
We need more funding for our space program.
President Reagan dramatically increased funding for research, but President Bush cut the funding. novanet
president reagan responded slowly to the crisis while research funding increased under president bush
it focuses on funding programs important to the president.
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Well like NASA to get them started off the US Government may of given them funding. But there a company. And they will of course make money. But the taxes you have in the US a small % may likely go to NASA
when Congress and the President cannot agree on temporary funding