NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the government department responsible for the United States of America's space program.

NASA's predecessor was the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), which was formed in 1915 to promote aeronautical research and development in the United States. In 1959, the department was reorganized and given control of the space program, which had previously been undertaken separately by different branches of the military.

NASA space missions

• Manned space missions
  • Mercury program
  • Gemini program
  • Apollo program and others
  • Skylab
  • Space Shuttle
  • International Space Station

Florida, USA, taken from NASA Shuttle Mission STS-95 on 31st October 1998. Read a full description of this image.

• Unmanned space missions
  • Mariner program and others
  • Surveyor program
  • Viking program
  • Voyager program
  • Mars Pathfinder
  • COBE

NASA has also collaborated with the ESA on some missions:

• Hubble Space Telescope
• Ulysses

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Field Installations

There are 12 NASA field installations:

• John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida
• Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
• Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Facility[?], Edwards, California[?]
• Goddard Space Flight Center[?], Greenbelt, Maryland
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, near Pasadena, California
• Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
• Langley Research Center[?], Hampton, Virginia
• Lewis Research Center[?], Cleveland, Ohio
• George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama
• Michoud Assembly Facility[?], New Orleans, Louisiana
• John C. Stennis Space Center[?], Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
• Wallops Flight Facility[?], Wallops Island, Virginia[?]

Some of its most notable achievements are sending the first men to the moon in 1969, the ongoing space shuttle program, contributions to the international space station, and the launching of various space probes and satellites. Its activities have led to a wealth of scientific discoveries, many of which have led to important military and commercial applications. In recent years, their strategy has begun to shift from pursuing a few high-cost projects, to pursuing a number of smaller and lower-cost projects, including the use of unmanned rockets, probes and robots.

Related Legislation

• 1958 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration PL 85-568
• 1961 - Apollo mission funding PL 87-98 A
• 1970 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research and Development Act[?] PL 91-119

• 1984 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act[?] PL 98-361
• 1988 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act[?] PL 100-685

See Also

• Space exploration
• Space Shuttle
• European Space Agency
• Russian Aviation and Space Agency[?]
• Earth

External Links

• NASA Home Page (http://www.nasa.gov)
• The Failure of NASA: And A Way Out (http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-03zn1.html) by Philip K. Chapman[?], Space Daily, May 30, 2003. An opinion piece which claims that NASA's problems are not in lack of funding but in mismanagement and a false belief in unsuccessful "giant leap" projects like the space shuttle and the International Space Station. Contains a graphic of NASA's funding up to 2005.

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