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.
NASA was established on July 29, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
President Kennedy established the US space program in a federal agency known as NASA‎.
President Dwight David Eisenhower did. He was the 34th president of the United States. I do not think he got much notice for it, as JFK did more missions with the program. JFK sent the first man on moon. At JKF's time, I think, there was more competition with the Soviets in the NASA program. But it is a stated fact that Eisenhower established it.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the legislation that established NASA in 1958. However, President John F. Kennedy played a significant role in galvanizing public support and setting the goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the creation of NASA, which was formed out of the earlier NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics). Guyford Stever, Wernher von Braun and Hugh Dryden were among the heads of the groups organized under NASA.
In my experience the term 'executive agency' is for certain bureaus in the British government. Since NASA is a part of the US government it would not be an executive agency under this definition. If you mean, is it an agency falling under the US Executive Branch (under the President) then yes, it falls under the President.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the US civilian space agency. It celebrated its 50th Anniversary on July 29, 2008.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha was established when Theodore Roosevelt was President in 1908.
NASA, with the cooperation of the US Department of the Interior, initiated this program in 1967.
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, also known as the Space Act, established NASA as the United States' civil space agency. It was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on July 29, 1958.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the NASA Act in July of 1958. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded and began their operations on October 1st, 1958.
President Abraham Lincoln