Early planning and research were carried out by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ), but the program was officially conducted by its successor organization, NASA.

Dan Goldin became NASA Administrator on April 1, 1992, officially abandoning plans for near-term human exploration beyond Earth orbit with the shift towards a " faster, better, cheaper " strategy for robotic exploration.

However, President Obama signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 on October 11 which officially brought the Constellation program to an end.

Three years later, NASA addressed the issue of planetary engineering officially in a study, but used the term " planetary ecosynthesis " instead.

In March 2010, Boeing officially turned over to NASA the U. S. on-orbit segment of the ISS.

In March 2010, Boeing completed its contract and officially turned over to NASA the U. S. on-orbit segment of the ISS.

Another major NASA facility, the Manned Spacecraft Center ( MSC ) located near Houston, Texas, was officially opened in September 1963.

NASA was officially established on October 1, 1958, to consolidate the separately developing space-exploration programs of the US Army, US Navy, and US Air Force into one civilian organization.

Attempts to recontact the spacecraft and resolve the problem failed, and NASA officially ended the mission in January 2007.

On March 1, 1999, the Lewis Research Center was officially renamed the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field after John Glenn ( American fighter pilot, astronaut and politician ).

NASA officially credits the image to the entire Apollo 17 crew – Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Jack Schmitt – all of whom took photographs during the mission with the on-board Hasselblad.

President Obama signed the NASA Authorization Act 2010 on October 11 which officially brought the Constellation program to an end, replacing it with the Space Launch System ( SLS ) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle ( MPCV ) programs to develop the launch vehicle and spacecraft to enable human exploration missions beyond low-Earth orbit.

Versions of such airplanes, officially nicknamed " Weightless Wonder " s, have been operated by the NASA Reduced Gravity Research Program.

Other groups predict dates matching officially predicted launch dates ; the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute ( formerly the Michelson Science Center ) at the California Institute of Technology also sets the date at 2015.

The program was officially cancelled by NASA on March 1, 2001.

After leaving NASA, Searfoss served as a judge for the Ansari X-Prize, where he officially declared SpaceShipOne to have won the competition on October 4, 2004 after completing two flights within a two week period.

On December 18, 1961 NASA officially designated the facility as NASA Mississippi Test Operations.

As ever-heavier launch vehicles entered consideration, NASA began to look at engines producing thrusts of up to, with development being officially authorised following the report of the Saturn Vehicle Evaluation Committee.

On July 16, 2007 NASA officially announced the award to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc. of a $ 1. 2 billion dollar contract " for design, development, testing and evaluation of the J-2X engine " intended to power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles.

On 15 March 1960 President Eisenhower officially announced the transfer of the Army's Development Operations Division to NASA.

* The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is officially dedicated in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.

These changes were proposed in an internal study called the Exploration Systems Architecture Study, whose results were officially presented during a press conference held at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D. C. on September 19, 2005.

NASA credits Silverstein with giving both the Mercury and Apollo programs their names.

Hibernia Reef ( NASA satellite image )

Faroe Islands on NASA satellite image.

Satellite imagery | Satellite image of Korea, taken by NASA

The Floridian Peninsula, shown by a NASA satellite image.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center image.

Panoramic image of Paracel Islands by NASA satellite.

Composite satellite image of the Pyrenees ( NASA )

NASA / ESA image

This image of the System / 360 Model 91 was taken by NASA sometime in the late 60s.

A NASA satellite image of the Thar Desert, with the India-Pakistan border superimposed.

NASA satellite image of Epirus.

NASA Ames was one of the first locations in the world to conduct research on image processing of satellite-platform aerial photography.

This image from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( MODIS ) on NASA ’ s Terra satellite captured the top image of the flooded Ghaghat and Atrai Rivers on October 12, 2005.

NASA slow scan image from the Moon.

File: Kliuchevskoi satellite photo. jpg | Satellite image image of Klyuchevskaya Sopka in April 2010 by NASA.

File: Lava and Snow on Klyuchevskaya Volcano 2010-04-07. jpg | Satellite image and map of Klyuchevskaya Sopka in 2002 by NASA.

NASA Aqua ( satellite ) | Aqua satellite image, 2009.

NASA satellite image of the Gaspé Peninsula.

Satellite image of Chaleur Bay ( NASA ).

NASA Geocover 2000 image and USGS Topographic Map

NASA image.

NASA ( via the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts ) has funded initial research into the New Worlds Mission project, which proposes to use a pinhole camera with a diameter of 10 m and focus length of 200, 000 km to image earth sized planets in other star systems.