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Who was the president of the U.S when NASA began?
President Ronald Reagan.Depending on what you consider the first flight, the answer is either Ronald Reagan (President January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989) or Jimmy Carter (President January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981).DateOrbiterMajor event02/18/1977EnterpriseFirst flight; Attached to Enterprise Shuttle Carrier Aircraft throughout flight.08/12/1977EnterpriseFirst free flight; Tailcone on; lakebed landing10/12/1977EnterpriseThird free flight; First with no tailcone; lakebed landing10/26/1977EnterpriseFinal Enterprise free flight; First landing on Edwards AFB concrete runway.04/12/1981ColumbiaFirst Columbia flight, first orbital test flight; STS-1Enterprise never flew in space but it did fly in the atmosphere. If you consider Enterprise to count as one of the space shuttles, then the first flight was in 1977 under Carter. If you only count the flights that launched into space, then Columbia was the first flight and occurred in 1981 under Reagan.
Which country was first to launch man into space?
China would be number three; Shen zhou 5 launched Chinese astronaut (Taikonaut) Yang Liwei into a 91.2 minute orbit.
Who was the president who started a space program to catch up with the Soviets?
Dwight D. Eishenhower. (Because of his famous pledge to land a man on the moon, John Kennedy is sometimes mistakenly given as the answer to this question.) From the late 1940s to the late 1980s, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the so-called "Cold War," a contest between democratic capitalism and totalitarian communism . Along with espionage and proxy wars, an arms race, an effort by each side to develop military dominance over the other, was an important (some would say the deciding) feature of that contest. In 1952, the International Council of Scientific Unions, proposed the International Geophysical Year, running from July 1957 to December 1958. In September, 1955 the Naval Research Laboratory's project Vanguard was chosen to orbit an unmanned satellite as part of the IGY effort, but it was underfunded and progress was slow. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union sucessfully orbited a satellite called "Sputnik." This generated a great deal of concern, if not panic, that there was a technology gap, and that the Soviets might use their technology to deliver weapons from space. Additional funding was forthcoming and the U.S. orbited its first artificial satellite on January 11, 1958. President Eisenhower and Congress chartered the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which absorbed all civilian space projects, beginning operations on October 1, 1958. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to enter space, achieving a single orbit of the Earth. On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the second man, and first American, to achieve space flight. On May 25, 1961, recently inaugurated President John F. Kennedy, in a special address on space to Congress, announce that, "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth. On July 20, 1969, the U. S. achieved Kennedy's goal, becoming the only country, to this day, to land men on Moon or any other extraterrestrial body.
Countries north of china?
Norht of China there is Russia and Mongolia which is squeezed between the two. Because of the frequent invasion to China from Mongolia, the Chinese people created the only monument man made visible from space: The great wall of China.
Who was the first president to talk to someone in space?
John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961, proposed a manned moon landing by the end of that decade. President Richard M. Nixon spoke to Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins during the first moon landing on July 21, 1969. In a famous speech by John F. Kennedy, he stressed the importance that man seek knowledge that isn't readily available and almost impossible to obtain. One of those goals was to put a man on the moon, therefore making the "impossible" possible. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/25/newsid_4369000/4369187.stm
