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National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedNASA's founding statute. One guest reads it as making NASA an arm of the Department of Defense in law; the text assigns civilian control of space activities while reserving military applications to the Department of Defense and directing cooperation between them.
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| Issuing body | United States Congress, Public Law 85-568 |
|---|---|
| Date | |
| Kind | legislation |
| Status | exists as a document; retrieved and read |
| Where | https://www.nasa.gov/history/national-aeronautics-and-space-act-of-1958-unamend… |
Passage
The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.
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Cited on the show
- 0:13:36 NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) ▶
- 0:13:36 Physicist: NASA Is Hiding What's Really on the Moon | MEMBERS RELEASE ▶
- 0:59:28 Physicist: NASA Is Hiding What's Really on the Moon | MEMBERS RELEASE ▶
- 1:00:31 Physicist: NASA Is Hiding What's Really on the Moon | MEMBERS RELEASE ▶
- 1:01:08 NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) ▶
- 1:02:09 NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) ▶
- 0:34:11 NASA’s Dark Secrets: UFOs, Pagan Rituals & Time Travel | EARLY & AD FREE ▶
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NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) 20 July 2026
- 0:13:36 ▶
very tightly linked in law through the space act of 1958 which created NASA by congress congressional act. Essentially the act says in many many parts that NASA is tightly overseen by the DoD and its uh space missions and objectives have to be in the interests of US national security and if any discoveries are made in
- 0:13:36 ▶ cited on the show
- 1:01:08 ▶ cited on the show
- 1:02:09 ▶ cited on the show
- 0:13:36 ▶
Physicist: NASA Is Hiding What's Really on the Moon | MEMBERS RELEASE 20 July 2026
- 0:13:36 ▶
very tightly linked in law through the space act of 1958 which created NASA by congress congressional act. Essentially the act says in many many parts that NASA is tightly overseen by the DoD and its uh space missions and objectives have to be in the interests of US national security and if any discoveries are made in
- 0:13:36 ▶ cited on the show
- 0:59:28 ▶
the potential to freak out the population, >> you're going to keep it secret. And so yeah, like you said, you have the space act of 1958 where NASA was explicitly kind of, you know, an extension of the DoD. And then you have Trump saying it's like, you know, an intelligence agency, you know, last year. And that's
- 0:59:28 ▶ cited on the show
- 1:00:31 ▶ cited on the show
- 0:13:36 ▶
NASA’s Dark Secrets: UFOs, Pagan Rituals & Time Travel | EARLY & AD FREE 19 September 2025
Sources on this record
- 0:13:36 NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) ▶
very tightly linked in law through the space act of 1958 which created NASA by congress congressional act. Essentially the act says in many many parts that NASA is tightly overseen by the DoD and its uh space missions and objectives have to be in the interests of US national security and if any discoveries are made in
- 0:13:36 Physicist: NASA Is Hiding What's Really on the Moon | MEMBERS RELEASE ▶
very tightly linked in law through the space act of 1958 which created NASA by congress congressional act. Essentially the act says in many many parts that NASA is tightly overseen by the DoD and its uh space missions and objectives have to be in the interests of US national security and if any discoveries are made in
- 0:59:28 Physicist: NASA Is Hiding What's Really on the Moon | MEMBERS RELEASE ▶
the potential to freak out the population, >> you're going to keep it secret. And so yeah, like you said, you have the space act of 1958 where NASA was explicitly kind of, you know, an extension of the DoD. And then you have Trump saying it's like, you know, an intelligence agency, you know, last year. And that's
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