Read the passage from "The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff ” by Erik Slader and Ben Thompson.People often forget that without NASA, we wouldn’t GPS, cell phones, weather forecasts, Facebook or the ability to watch live broadcasts from the far corners of the globe—all basic modern necessities that we take for granted. During its early years, NASA put the world’s first weather satellite into orbit, along with the first television satellite (Telstar) and the first navigation satellite (NAVSAT). Meanwhile, engineers at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia were hard at work designing and testing the latest high-tech spacecraft that would hopefully carry the first Americans into space.