- 1958: NASA is established.

A funny thing is 1960 which is just two years after that a man went to one of the renown betting firms in London and bet a sizable sum on that a man would be on the moon before the end of the decade…… to much delight of the betting firm, they considered him a complete lunatic and gave the odds of a 1000 times the money.

I guess they should have consider him a genius instead?