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NASA: Cobalt Location
NASA was founded in 1958. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958, and NASA opened for business on October 1, 1958, built around an older research group called the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
- Cost
- 7 crystals
- Type
- Location · Discovery
- Color
- Cobalt (Thinkers & Dreamers)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)
End of your turn: draw a card.
Government agency that transformed science fiction dreams into spacewalking, moon-landing reality through engineering brilliance.
The real history
NASA was created in response to the Soviet space program. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957, and many Americans worried the United States was falling behind. A committee recommended a new civilian space agency built around the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, known as NACA, a research group founded in 1915.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958. The law set up NASA to lead the nation's civilian space program. T. Keith Glennan, the president of the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, was nominated as the first administrator and sworn in on August 19.
NASA opened for business on October 1, 1958. About 8,000 people went home on September 30 as NACA employees and reported for work the next day as NASA employees. The new agency inherited three research laboratories, Langley in Virginia, Ames in California and Lewis in Ohio, plus two test facilities, and a yearly budget of about $100 million. Its first headquarters was the Dolley Madison House in Washington, D.C.
NASA started work on Project Mercury, the first American human spaceflight program, right away. On July 20, 1969, about eleven years after NASA opened, the Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on it, followed by Buzz Aldrin.
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How the card plays
NASA costs 7 crystals and is a Cobalt Location. Its text reads: End of your turn: draw a card. That is one extra card every turn it stays in play, which makes it a slow but powerful engine.
Because it costs 7, play it on a turn when your board is already safe, then let it bury the opponent in cards. Robert Frost, Robert Frost, searches your deck for a Location when he enters, so he can fetch NASA once you have the crystals. Exploring the Land, Exploring the Land, does the same job as an event and also draws. Apollo 11, Apollo 11, is an expensive Vehicle with Explore and Double Chapter, and the extra cards from NASA help you find it and keep your other plays coming.
- Playable in decks led by Martin Luther King Jr., Neil Armstrong, and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Cobalt.
- In the Dr. King starter deck (1 copy). Deck code:
LC2-BAABAQICAQMBBAEFAQYBBwEIAQkCCgILAQwBDQIOAg8BEAIRARICEwIUAhUBFgEXARgBGQEaARsBHAEdAR4B3v4 - In the Armstrong starter deck (1 copy). Deck code:
LC2-AQABAQECAQMBBAEFAQYBBwEIAgkCCgILAQwBDQIOAQ8BEAERARICEwIUARUBFgEXARgBGQEaARsBHAIdAR4BfQK1eQ - A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.
Questions about NASA
What came before NASA?
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA, founded in 1915. NASA absorbed it, along with its three research laboratories, when the new agency opened on October 1, 1958.
Who was NASA's first administrator?
T. Keith Glennan, who had been president of the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio. He was sworn in on August 19, 1958.
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