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NASA Celebrating it's 60th Birthday!

From 2018 through 2022, NASA is marking a series of important milestones – the 60th anniversary of the agency’s founding by Congress in 1958, and the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions that put a dozen Americans on the Moon between July 1969 and December 1972. Celebrations already are under way. Some are complete, some are scheduled in the coming months, and some are still being planned. 

You can read more on their 60th birthday plans here:

I had the pleasure of attending NASA at 60: Three Score and Counting with Music at the Kennedy Center. The National Symphony Orchestra played all of the space themed favorites including those from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars and Star Trek. In attendance were NASA officials including the newly minted administrator, Jim Bridenstine. Included in the program were John Cho (Star Trek), Coheed and Cambria, Grace Potter, Nick Sagan, and will.i.am with Clifton Ross III and the School Without Walls Concert Choir.

Accompanying the performance was an exhibit highlighting the agency’s accomplishments over the past 60 years.