Political Quotes

“Mr. President, on behalf of myself and the senior Senator from Virginia, Mark Warner, we want to commemorate an important, early step in our Nation's emergence as a world leader in flight, space exploration, and atmospheric science. One hundred years ago today on July 17, 1917, NASA's Langley Research Center was founded in Hampton, VA. What was once a quiet expanse of farmland and marsh on a riverbank near the Chesapeake Bay has helped transform our Nation's transportation system and the world's understanding of our universe. That date in 1917 represents the beginning of a journey that would eventually take Americans to the moon and American technology to Mars and beyond. Born in the days of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the precursor to NASA, Langley was the agency's first field center and our Nation's first civilian aeronautics laboratory. The groundbreaking and sky conquering research conducted during Langley's early days led to major advances in aeronautics and, in the years after World War I, helped our Nation cement its status as a pacesetter in flight research. Langley's important work also served as a foundation for America's burgeoning aviation industry. Langley won the first of its seven Collier trophies, awarded for the highest achievements in aeronautics or astronautics in our Nation, in 1929.…”