NASA: The New Frontier

President Dwight D. Eisenhower played a pivotal role in founding NASA as a civilian agency devoted to space exploration. Under his leadership, space became a new frontier not of military dominance, but of scientific discovery and peaceful progress. Students will travel along the timeline of NASA's creation, learning about the history of the space program and its impact on our lives today. Inquiry and critical thinking will be used to analyze primary sources, such as photographs, documents, and artifacts from the time of NASA's creation.