claim: NASA has been adjusting temperatures from the past[ ... ]
evidence: On January 14, 1958, NACA Director Hugh Dryden published A National Research Program for Space Technology stating : Play media It is of great urgency and importance to our country both from consideration of our prestige as a nation as well as military necessity that this challenge [ Sputnik ] be met by an energetic program of research and development for the conquest of space ...