00:00 The history of NASA dates back to the creation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1915.

02:11 The creation of NASA was prompted by the Sputnik Crisis and the urgent need for the United States to catch up to the Soviet Union in space exploration.

04:13 NASA was created on October 1, 1958, incorporating the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and one of their first projects was the development of Project Mercury, a capsule on top of a rocket to send someone to space.

06:21 After launching their first man into space and continuing the Mercury program, President John Kennedy challenged Congress to send a person to the moon and back by the end of the 1960s, leading to the creation of the Apollo program and the tragic setback of the Apollo 1 fire.

08:22 The Apollo 11 mission achieved the goal of landing on the moon, but after its success, interest in NASA waned and funding was cut, leading to the cancellation of three Apollo missions and the development of the Space Shuttle program as a more sustainable and cost-effective method of space travel.

10:20 The Space Shuttle program was retired in 2011, leaving NASA reliant on Russia for transportation to and from the International Space Station until November 2020, when a crew launched from Florida using a private capsule built by SpaceX, and NASA has been actively exploring the solar system through manned and unmanned missions, including flybys, landings on Mars and Saturn's moon Titan, and placing spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter and Saturn.

12:22 NASA's future will likely involve more collaboration with commercial companies for rocket launches, allowing them to focus on other aspects of space exploration, while still continuing their work in aeronautics.