The first flight of Columbia ( STS-1 ) was commanded by John Young, a Gemini and Apollo veteran who was the ninth person to walk on the Moon in 1972, and piloted by Robert Crippen, a rookie astronaut originally selected to fly on the military's Manned Orbital Laboratory ( MOL ) spacecraft, but transferred to NASA after its cancellation, and served as a support crew member for the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions.

The Orbital Workshop was renamed " Skylab " in February 1970 as a result of a NASA contest.

NASA Orbital Debris Observatory tracked space debris using a liquid mirror transit telescope.

Orbital photo courtesy of NASA.

Prior to his flight, Mr. Shuttleworth completed Space Adventures ’ Orbital Pre-Qualification Program and underwent almost eight months of training and medical exams, including a one-week orientation program at NASA ’ s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

In addition, in a 2003 interview Chief Scientist for Orbital Debris at the NASA Johnson Space Center Nicholas L. Johnson stated:

Partnering with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) on the mission are the California Institute of Technology, Orbital Sciences Corporation, University of California, Berkeley, Yonsei University, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Laboratoire d ' Astrophysique de Marseille, France.

NASA has already awarded SpaceX a contract to deliver unmanned cargo to the ISS under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services ( COTS ) program.

In December 2010, Orbital Sciences made a commercial proposal to NASA to develop the Prometheus, a lifting-body spaceplane vehicle about one-quarter the size of the Space Shuttle, in response to NASA's Commercial Crew Development ( CCDev ) solicitation.

Orbital photo courtesy of NASA.

While flying separately in the cargo bay, the Orbital Acceleration Research Experiment ( OARE ), sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center ( now Glenn Research Center ), is an integral part of USMP-04.

To this point, the project had encompassed spending of just under $ 112 million: $ 85. 7M from the original contract with designer Orbital Sciences, $ 16M from NASA and various government agencies for testing, and an additional $ 10M for Orbital Sciences to adapt its L-1011 carrier to accommodate the X-34.

Effective April 11, 1994, Grabe left NASA and the Air Force to join Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Virginia.

) is a former NASA astronaut currently working for Orbital Sciences Corporation's Advanced Programs Group as Vice President for Human Space Flight Operations.

Several months later, in December 2008, NASA announced that they have awarded the remaining $ 170m to the trusted Orbital Sciences Corporation to develop resupply services to the ISS.

In 2006, NASA awarded the company a Commercial Orbital Transportation Services ( COTS ) contract to design and demonstrate a launch system to resupply cargo to the International Space Station ( ISS ).

On 18 August 2006, NASA announced that SpaceX had won a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services ( COTS ) contract to demonstrate cargo delivery to the International Space Station ( ISS ) with a possible option for crew transport.

The second flight for the Falcon 9 vehicle was the COTS Demo Flight 1 on 8 December 2010, the first launch under the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services ( COTS ) contract, and was similarly successful.

* Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, a NASA program for delivery to the International Space Station by private companies

* NASA Orbital Debris Observatory

* Apophis Orbital Prediction Page at NASA JPL

Orbital parameters of more than 10, 000 objects are maintained in this catalog — which has now gained usage by NASA, weather agencies, and friendly foreign agencies.

* NASA Hopes Laser Broom Will Help Clean Up Space Debris Agence France-Presse story via SpaceDaily

NASA Orbital Debris Observatory, which used a 3 m diameter aperture liquid mirror, and the Large Zenith Telescope uses a 6 m diameter aperture liquid mirror are both zenith telescopes since the use of liquid mirror meant these telescopes could only point straight up.

Phillips ' superior officer Bernard Schriever agreed to loan Phillips to NASA, along with a staff of officers under him, on the condition that Phillips be made Apollo Program Director.

The NASA Constellation Program announced Altair as the name of the Lunar Surface Access Module ( LSAM ) on December 13, 2007.

Deep Space 1 ( DS1 ) is a spacecraft of the NASA New Millennium Program dedicated to testing a payload of advanced, high risk technologies.

As a part of NASA ’ s Agency Consolidated End-User Service ( ACES ) Program, HP will modernize NASA ’ s entire end-user infrastructure by delivering a full range of personal computing services and devices to more than 60, 000 users.

An earlier project which received some significant planning by NASA included a manned fly-by of Venus in the Manned Venus Flyby mission, but was cancelled when the Apollo Applications Program was terminated due to NASA budget cuts in the late 1960s.

Launius emphasizes efforts to include such less-well-known groups within the agency as the Astrobiology Program, and to collect the oral histories of women in NASA.

In 1992, the U. S. government funded an operational SETI program, in the form of the NASA Microwave Observing Program ( MOP ).

* NASA Glenn Research Center Hall Thruster Program

Lunar Prospector was the third mission selected by NASA for full development and construction as part of the Discovery Program.

NASA Ames was a partner on the Mars Phoenix, a Mars Scout Program mission to send a high-latitude lander to Mars, deployed a robotic arm to dig trenches up to 1. 6 feet ( one half meter ) into the layers of water ice and analyzing the soil composition.

* " Detect, see, avoid ", an aircraft anti-collision technology program, part of the NASA ERAST Program

The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon.

* Vesper mission, a planned Venus chemistry and dynamics orbiter of the NASA Discovery Program

* Roy F. Brissenden, World War II pilot, physicist, aeronautical engineer, mechanical engineer, teacher, inventor, project leader at Hampton, Langley Research Center NACA / NASA ; great genius of the Apollo Program

* GEOS-1 ( Goddard Earth Observing System version 1 ), Earth model from NASA EOS Program

In 2000, the Astrogeology Research Program of the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona was funded by NASA ( as part of the Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project ) to scan at 25 micrometre resolution archival LO positive film strips that were produced from the original data.

Byers, 1977, DESTINATION MOON: A history of the Lunar Orbiter Program ( PDF ), NASA TM X-3487

* DESTINATION MOON: A history of the Lunar Orbiter Program ( PDF ) 1977, NASA TM X-3487

After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, Bean pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as that of his fellow Apollo Program astronauts.

Before it was cancelled by President Barack Obama in early 2010, the Constellation Program had been a major activity in NASA since 2004.

The MSFC Lunar Precursor and Robotic Program Office manages projects and directs studies on lunar robotic activities across NASA.

Even before the first Apollo landing, plans were being made by NASA for an Apollo Applications Program ( AAP ).

The university is home to New Mexico's NASA Space Grant Program and is one of 52 institutions in the United States to be designated a Space Grant College.