ARPA-H, which had a budget of $1.5 billion in the last fiscal year, has already launched projects to discover new antibiotics, 3D-print a human heart and help the body repair its own joints.

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But Eisenhower was committed to establishing a civil space program and soon after the creation of NASA in October 1958 ARPA’s role changed, Smith said. By 1960 most of ARPA’s space programs ...