65 years of NASA – an astrophysicist reflects on the agency's legacy
- Written by Stephen G. Alexander, Associate Professor of Physics, Miami University
NASA's missions have inspired generations of young people to pursue the sciences. Patrick Semansky/APSixty-five years ago, in 1958, several government programs that had been pursuing spaceflight combined to form NASA. At the time, I was only 3 years old.
I’ve now been a professor of physics and astronomy for nearly 30 years, and I realize...
