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NASA Budget Spending

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  • Initiation of Cold War

    hostilities with the USSR, government increases federal defense and aero-space budget.

  • Sputnik

    Russia launches "Sputnik", suprring on the "Space Race", and encourging the formation of NASA.

  • Formation of NASA

    President Eisenhower approves plan to orbit Americas first artifcal satellite.
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  • Apollo Program

    Kennedy, in response to Russias first space walk, approves Apollp program.

  • NASA's Progect Gemini

    Preparation for Nasa's aplool program, and in response to the USSR's cosmonaught flight program, Project Gemini proved that not only was the US capable of a human space program, but that humans were able to survive and endure long periods of suspended space flight.

  • Collapse of Soviet Union

    Gorbachev and the Soviet union fall. USA removes NASA budget spending.

  • NASA Increase budget

    Obama approves a 18.5 billion budget spending increase for NASA.