While this new federal agency would conduct all non-military space activity, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created in February 1958 to develop space technology for military application.
当时这个新的联邦机构将进行的是所有非军事太空活动，但是在1958 年2月成立的国防高等研究计划署（APRA）从事的却是开发军事用途的空间技术。