Question

Which U.S president initiated funding for NASA?

Answer 1

Dwight D. Eisenhower passed he bill that allowed funding for NASA. He also made some key decisions that led to the creation of NASA.

Answer 2

Dwight Eisenhower was the U.S president initiated funding for NASA.

In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an act that creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA research was funded by Eisenhower’s successors, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

NASA was created as a result of  the Soviet space program's launch of the world's first artificial satellite (Sputnik 1) on October 4, 1957, whcih made the United States focused on its own fledgling space efforts.