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NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA) Established in 1958 in the wake of the Soviet Sputnik space mission. NASA was generously funded throughout the 1960s, in order to realize President
Kennedy's aim of putting a man on the moon by 1969. In July of that year it achieved this through the
Apollo Program, going on to a number of unmanned space flights and to placing spy satellites, together with weather and communications satellites, into the earth's orbit. Its programme to develop a reusable space shuttle suffered a severe setback in January 1986 with the disaster of a Challenger shuttle explosion, investigations into which revealed both malpractices and inefficiencies, with slack quality control. The resumed shuttle programme authorized by President
Reagan was to be devoted to scientific research, with the US Department of Defense remaining responsible for military research and development in outer space. In the 1980s and 1990s, NASA pioneered the exploration of space within and beyond the solar system, while it established a lead in the development of new generations of communication satellites.
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NASA Making Government More Accessible With Cutting-Edge Use of New Media.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 12/23/2009; 700+ words
; NASA is supporting the White House's Open Government Directive with a number...create a dialog with the American people about their space program (see also NASA). NASA is one of six departments and agencies working to spur innovation by making...
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NASA revamps web site completes overhaul of www.nasa.gov.
Newspaper article from: Federal Computer Market Report; 6/23/2003; 700+ words
; NASA has introduced a revamped version of its web site (www.nasa.gov) to enhance understanding of the agency's contributions to everyday life. The new NASA web site was created in February as a joint effort between...
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NASA revamps web site: interactive agency Critical Mass completes overhaul of www.nasa.gov.
Magazine article from: EDP Weekly's IT Monitor; 6/23/2003; 700+ words
; NASA has introduced a revamped version of its web site (www.nasa.gov) to enhance understanding of the agency's contributions to everyday life. The new NASA web site was created in February as a joint effort between...
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NASA Chief Backs Agency-Appointed Board Investigating Shuttle Disaster.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 2/13/2003; 700+ words
; ...Business News Feb. 13--WASHINGTON--NASA's top official came under withering criticism Wednesday from lawmakers who believe a NASA-appointed panel investigating the shuttle...Columbia crash lacks sufficient independence. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, the sole...
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NASA Shares the Beauty of Aerospace Design With Air Show Visitors
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 7/18/2007; 700+ words
; ...mobile: +1-757-344-8511, both of NASA WASHINGTON, July 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will give visitors a behind-the-scenes...be held July 23-29 in Oshkosh, Wis. A NASA exhibit at the event will feature some of...
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NASA Privatization Raises Questions.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 2/6/2003; 700+ words
; ...Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 6--NASA jumped aboard the privatization juggernaut...privatization, or commercialization, as NASA calls it? "I believe so," said William...Northeastern University in Boston and an expert on NASA. "Again, if for no other reason than...
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NASA'S WISE SKY SURVEYING SPACECRAFT READY FOR LAUNCH DEC. 11
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/8/2009; 597 words
; WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- NASA issued the following media advisory: The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE...EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NASA will provide television and Internet coverage of...
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NASA Announces Three International Space Station Crews.
PR Newswire; 2/12/2007; 700+ words
; ...WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA and its international partners have named...Columbus laboratories on the station. NASA astronaut and veteran station crew member...Force Brig. Gen. Leopold Eyharts and NASA astronaut Garrett E. Reisman. -- Malenchenko...
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NASA Commercial Space Partners Complete Milestones
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 2/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...Houston, +1-281-483-5111, all of NASA HOUSTON, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two companies that are receiving NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services...Station in the future. In August 2006, NASA and the companies signed Space Act Agreements...
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NASA and the decision to build the space shuttle, 1969-72.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) began to work on in the late 1960s. With the shuttle program NASA planned to facilitate its aggressive space...transportation to and from Earth's orbit. NASA officials compared the space program...
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NASA
Book article from: Space Sciences
NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Act of...National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to "provide for research into problems...and for other purposes." At the time of NASA's creation, it was not possible to predict...
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NASA (National Air and Space Administration)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
NASA (National Air and Space Administration...National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have to date elevated aerospace technologies...physical tools for ensuring national security. NASA and DOD joint research has propelled the advances...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Book article from: Computer Sciences
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was formed in 1958 from the National Advisory...air and space research. Within a decade, NASA had three piloted and several unpiloted space...
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NASA Covers Up Evidence of Alien Life on Mars
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
NASA Covers Up Evidence of Alien Life on Mars NASA meddler Richard Hoagland insists that not only have the astronauts...Mars Face, a Sphinx-like object that appeared on numerous NASA photographs during the Viking I orbit in 1976, Hoagland has...
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NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
NASA Infrared Telescope Facility ( IRTF ) A 3-m reflector for infrared astronomy, particularly of Solar System objects, opened in 1979 at Mauna Kea Observatory , Hawaii. It is operated for NASA by the University of Hawaii. http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/
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