#history is the government agency in charge of United States space programs. It was founded on July 29, 1958, during President Eisenhower's administration, that president approved the National Aeronautics and Space Act (National Aeronautics and Space Act); in October of that same year, four NASA laboratories were inaugurated with approximately 8,000 employees. However, NASA was born as a substitute for the former NACA entity National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics founded in 1946, where experiments had been carried out with rocket planes, such as the famous supersonic Bell X-1.

However, the birth of NASA was driven by the advances of the Soviets in the space field: in 1957 the Russians launched the first artificial satellite, called Sputnik 1. This was taken by the Americans as a threat to which it was necessary to respond. The North American country during the Cold War injected large amounts of money to improve the functioning of NASA, in order to respond to the tough competition known as the space race between the United States and the former USSR, This achieved so significant for humanity and space study could not have been possible without the antecedent of the Mercury program started in 1958, in response to the launch of Sputnik 1, the objective was to discover if man could survive in outer space: first the capsule was tested with a monkey and then with a chimpanzee named Ham with the question under control, the first astronaut to be inserted into the Freedom 7 spacecraft was Alan Shepard, on May 5, 1961, NASA also has eight stations in the world, in countries such as Australia, South Africa, French Polynesia, Tahiti, Peru, among others in all of them NASA has developed environmental strategies to reduce the negative impact after the use of toxic chemicals used in the manufacture of rockets and carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere during their operation.