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Today in history: July 29The Week's Editorial Staff 6 hours agoRussia's Sputnik inspired President Eisenhower to create NASA in 1958.In 1958, America began to enter the space ageOn This Day. 1958: Vowing that the United States would lead the space age, President Dwight Eisenhower signed an act creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, more commonly known as NASA. NASA was formed nine months after the Soviet Union beat the U.S. into space by launching the first satellite, Sputnik. Sputnik scared many Americans into thinking that the U.S. was falling behind foreign rivals; it spurred huge government investments in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Although the Soviets — in 1961 — beat the United States would, in 1969, become the first nation to safely land a man on the moon.On This Day. 1975: Gerald Ford became the first president to visit Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi concentration camp in Poland.
Today in History: May 31455: The Emperor Petronius Maximus gets stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.