Which best describes the reason the US government founded NASA?

NASA was founded in 1958 to coordinate the United States’ civilian aeronautics and space research, bringing scattered projects under one agency. The goal was centralized oversight of the country’s air and space efforts, not primarily to raise science education or conceal the program from the USSR. The best choice is B, “so that one central authority could oversee all the various air and space projects.”

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