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No. He died before NASA was started.
NASA started the Apollo mission's.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower started NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in 1958.
It was started in the early 1950's in July 29. 1958.
The NASA act was signed in July of 1958 by president Eisenhower and NASA officially started operations on the 1st of October of that same year.
Mercury was the name of the first American Space program started by NASA. The goals were to see if humans can go to space and function normaly.
because of sputnick
NASA is not building a plant in Enterprise, AL, but Airbus started the construction of an assembly plant in Mobile, AL in 2013.
NASA was first stated up on July 29 1958. It was first started up for the purpose of trying to match then exceed what the Russians were doing.
Nixon defunded NASA as quickly as he could, as Apollo was started by a Democrat, JFK, and so every Apollo success was an "advertisement" for the Democrats.
I don't know but the space shuttle idea started in the late 60s.
Started the Space War, Cold War; help develop NASA