No, N.A.S.A. did not invent the first spaceship. The first 'inventors' were more ideators or dreamers such as Galileo, da Vinci,and many others.Dr. Robert Goddard in the U.S. was a rocketeer who showed the feasability of unmanned rocket flight and others steered the technology towards warfare. After WWII, interest in peacetime space exploration gathered many minds on two continents to engineer the 'how to do it',or logistics, of safe, manned travel outside of Earth's atmosphere. The Soviet Union was first, and the U.S. close behind. This became known as the 'space race'. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),became the abbreviation for the U.S. effort. NASA, with the backing of the U.S. taxpayer,succeeded in placing 12 men on the Moon by 1972.There is really no one or tw