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NASA

U.S. space agency, acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, set up in 1958.

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NASA (disambiguation)

NASA is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA or Nasa may also refer to:

NASA (Swedish band)

NASA is a Swedish synthpop band fronted by Patrik Henzel and Martin Thors. They debuted in 1983 with a song for a Swedish film. In 1985 they had a Swedish top ten hit "Paula". In the 1980s, the band had little success outside of Sweden. A planned US album was recorded, but then shelved by Columbia Records. They continued to have numerous hit singles in their home country of Sweden. They were basically defunct for most of the 1990s, but had a resurgence with the album "Remembering the Future" in 1999.

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower established NASA in 1958 with a distinctly civilian (rather than military) orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science. The National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed on July 29, 1958, disestablishing NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The new agency became operational on October 1, 1958.

Since that time, most US space exploration efforts have been led by NASA, including the Apollo moon-landing missions, the Skylab space station, and later the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA is supporting the International Space Station and is overseeing the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the Space Launch System and Commercial Crew vehicles. The agency is also responsible for the Launch Services Program (LSP) which provides oversight of launch operations and countdown management for unmanned NASA launches.

NASA science is focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing System, advancing heliophysics through the efforts of the Science Mission Directorate's Heliophysics Research Program, exploring bodies throughout the Solar System with advanced robotic spacecraft missions such as New Horizons, and researching astrophysics topics, such as the Big Bang, through the Great Observatories and associated programs. NASA shares data with various national and international organizations such as from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite.

Nasa (genus)

Nasa is a genus of plants in the family Loasaceae.

Species include:

  • Nasa aequatoriana
  • Nasa amaluzensis
  • Nasa asplundii
  • Nasa auca
  • Nasa connectans
  • Nasa ferox
  • Nasa glabra
  • Nasa hornii
  • Nasa humboldtiana
  • Nasa jungifolia
  • Nasa loxensis
  • Nasa modesta
  • Nasa peltata
  • Nasa profundilobata
  • Nasa rufipila
  • Nasa tabularis

Category:Loasaceae

Usage examples of "nasa".

Activity--one of those NASA jawbreakers, this one means stepping outside the ship for a bit.

NASA accident inquiry, I could maybe believe that what happened was an overdesigned safety system going wrong.

In the summer of 1976 it is planned to land NASA Viking probes on Mars.

Tucker had finally commanded a Skylab mission a year before Baedecker had left NASA.

Around the time of the Apollo lunar landings, many nonexperts - owners of small telescopes, flying saucer zealots, writers for aerospace magazines - pored over the returned photographs seeking anomalies that NASA scientists and astronauts had overlooked.

Star Trek and the star - bound reality of NASA to our ongoing Camelot - to - the - stars.

And meanwhile the space connection, NASA connection, Camelot connection has been developing.

NASA was bad at it anyhow—long-range plans always got bogged down in infighting between the centers—and Webb believed that long-term plans were just hostages to fortune, a distraction for budget authorizers and NASA managers.

Fizzy with one wheel and bears the engineer in the scoop up and away and down the steep grade toward the idling van at the bottom, a van whose own angled ramp now slides out like a tongue or Autoteller's transaction-receipt, the NASA blanket blowing away from the scooped engineer's flailing form about halfway down and suddenly aloft in a hillside thermal and blown far out over Arlington St.

It's all my fault, she thought, trying to ease her conscience by reminding herself of all the glum NASA press conferences of the past year—the space station setbacks, the postponement of the X-33, all the failed Mars probes, continuous budget bailouts.

Stopping along the way at a tourist-vacuum to load myself down further with two coffees, an apple juice, film, postcards, a NASA sunhat for Erin, NASA ballcaps for myself and Zoey, and three pairs of sunglasses.

While Brumado answered the reporters' myriad of questions and bantered happily with them, no one noticed that the physician in charge of the medical section sat at the very end of the table of NASA officials, looking tired and grim.

I tole him about the Ping-Pong stuff in China an gettin involved with the NASA people an startin up the srimp bidness an playin football for the New Orleans Saints.

From the moment a Joint Armed Forces-National Research Council Committee on Bioastronautics had visited the new NASA facility at Langley in January 1959, there had been doctors warning that the weightless state or high g-forces, or both, could be devastating and that animal flights should be mandatory.

One of the Mars face enthusiasts now announces: Breakthru News of the Century Censored by NASA for fear of Religious upheavals and breakdowns.