In March 1961 Singer and another University of Maryland physicist, E. J. Opik, were given a $ 97, 000 grant by NASA to conduct a three-year study of interplanetary gas and dust.

NASA appealed and the US Supreme Court granted certiorari on March 8, 2010.

Space Shuttle Discovery ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103 ) is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States, and was operational from its maiden flight, STS-41-D on August 30, 1984, until its final landing during STS-133 on March 9, 2011.

As of March 2011, the US Senate and House of Representatives are still working towards a compromise NASA funding bill, which will probably terminate Constellation and fund development of a heavy lift launch vehicle ( HLLV ).

In March 1979, NASA engineer and author James Oberg organized the First Terraforming Colloquium, a special session at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston.

* The standard waterfall model for systems development NASA webpage, archived on Internet Archive March 10, 2005.

* Parametric Cost Estimating Handbook, NASA webpage based on the waterfall model, archived on Internet Archive March 8, 2005.

* March 5 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.

* March 3 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.

* March 23 – Gemini 3: NASA launches the United States ' first 2-person crew ( Gus Grissom, John Young ) into Earth orbit.

* March 2 – NASA announces that the Mars rover MER-B ( Opportunity ) has confirmed that its landing area was once drenched in water.

On March 17, 2010 Phil Stooke, a professor at the University of Western Ontario announced that he had located Lunokhod 2's final resting place in photographs made by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( LRO ).

On March 6, 2008, NASA announced that Rhea may have a tenuous ring system.

Frank Frederick Borman, II ( born March 14, 1928 ) is a retired NASA astronaut, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with fellow crew mates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the first of only 24 humans to do so.

But the LM was not ready for its first flight, leading NASA management to decide to replace Borman's mission with a lunar orbit flight using just the Command / Service Module as Apollo 8 in December, making McDivitt's flight Apollo 9 in March 1969.

* Pioneer 4-a similar NASA mission launched 3 March 1959, two months after Luna 1.

Alan LaVern Bean ( born March 15, 1932 ) is a former NASA astronaut and painter.

In early March 2011, NASA Headquarters announced that MSFC will lead the efforts on a new heavy-lift rocket that, like the Saturn V of the lunar exploration program of the late 1960s, will carry large, man-rated payloads beyond low-Earth orbit.

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.

Further progress came in March 2004 when two successful tests were carried out at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Centre using small-scale rockets manufactured by Blacksky Corporation, based in Carlsbad, California.

NASA Terra Satellite image March, 2001

Chawla joined the NASA ' Astronaut Corps ' in March 1995 and was selected for her first flight in 1996.

Laurel Blair Salton Clark ( March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003 ) was a medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle mission specialist who was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

* 2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

* 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.

In 2006, NASA made a prediction for the next sunspot maximum, being between 150 and 200 around the year 2011 ( 30-50 % stronger than cycle 23 ), followed by a weak maximum at around 2022.

On October 31, 2006, NASA announced approval of the launch of the space shuttle, Atlantis, the fifth and final shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, scheduled for August 28, 2008.

Non-launch costs account for a significant part of the program budget: for example, during fiscal years 2004 to 2006, NASA spent around $ 13 billion on the space shuttle program, even though the fleet was grounded in the aftermath of the Columbia disaster and there were a total of three launches during this period of time.

On October 22, 2006, NASA opened the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Cosmos.

He was Chief of Robotics for the NASA Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas from 2003 – 2006 and was Chief of International Space Station Operations from 2006 – 2008.

In 2006 the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit labeled one of the hills explored " Zhongsan ".

* Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — NASA orbiter, entered Martian orbit March 10, 2006

In 2006, NASA posthumously awarded him the Ambassador of Exploration Award for his work for the agency and science.

In 2006 NASA initially expected a solar maximum in 2010 or 2011, and thought that it could be the strongest since 1958.

With the two rovers still functioning well, NASA later announced another 18 month extension of the mission to September 2006.

On 25 October 2006, NASA launched STEREO, two near-identical spacecraft which from widely separated points in their orbits will produce the first stereoscopic images of CMEs and other solar activity measurements.

This record was equalled by a team led by Dr. Nathalie A. Cabrol ( SETI Institute / NASA Ames ) in 2006.

According to trial testimony in 2006, Dr. Saeed advised Rusty, a former NASA engineer, not to leave his patient unattended.

On May 1, 2006, Collins announced that she would leave NASA to spend more time with her family and pursue other interests.

Collins has received the Defense Superior Service Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for service in Grenada ( Operation Urgent Fury ), the French Legion of Honor, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal and NASA Space Flight Medals, the Free Spirit Award, and the 2006 National Space Trophy.

* An Elite Alliance March 2006, article on former NASA head and current LSU Chancellor Sean O ' Keefe's participation in the Bohemian Grove.

However, on May 13, 2006, it was announced that NASA Glenn Research Center had secured management of the Crew Exploration Vehicle's service module, which promised to generate billions of dollars and hundreds of jobs for the center.

In the summer of 2006 Gestir played the " Atlantic Music Event " at NASA ( Reykjavik, Iceland ), the G!

On 19 July 2006 NASA astronaut Brian Duffy visited and told people about his trip to space.

On November 17, 2006 NASA announced the successful test of the MRO as an orbital communications relay.