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NASA and Space
The Apollo program was the third human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), the United States ' civilian space agency.
Tidbinbilla is a locality to the south-west of Canberra that features the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, operated by the United States ' National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) as part of its Deep Space Network.
* Development of Manned Space Flight, American and Soviet NASA SP-4209
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics ( LHEA ) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Click and Clack have also been featured in editorial cartoons, including one where a befuddled NASA engineer calls them to ask how to fix the Space Shuttle.
* 1993 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
During 1960, all of its civilian space programs were transferred to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the military space programs to the individual Services.
Deep Space 1 ( DS1 ) is a spacecraft of the NASA New Millennium Program dedicated to testing a payload of advanced, high risk technologies.
During a NASA wind tunnel test, a model of the Space Shuttle is targeted by a beam of electrons, simulating the effect of ion izing gases during re-entry.
Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE.
* Suzaku, the name given in 2005 to an ASTRO-E spacecraft, a joint venture of NASA and the Japanese Space Agency JAXA
UTC Power continues to be the sole supplier of fuel cells to NASA for use in space vehicles, having supplied fuel cells for the Apollo missions, and the Space Shuttle program, and is developing fuel cells for automobiles, buses, and cell phone towers.
Singer has worked as a consultant for several government agencies, including the House Select Committee on Space, NASA, the Government Accountability Office, the National Science Foundation, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Research Council, the Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel, and the Department of the Treasury.
* NASA, Vanguard — A History, " Chapter 1 Background of Space Exploration " mentions S. Fred Singer's role in early US space exploration.
General relativity also predicts the existence of gravitational waves, which have since been observed indirectly ; a direct measurement is the aim of projects such as LIGO and NASA / ESA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and various pulsar timing arrays.
* 2005 – STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank.
* 1958 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ).
The John F. Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) is the United States launch site that has been used for every NASA human space flight since 1968.
The Skylab project, managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center, was seen by the Manned Spacecraft Center ( later Johnson Space Center ) as an invasion of its historical role as the NASA center for manned spaceflight.

NASA and Telescope
This retention of an internal airlock allowed NASA to use Columbia for the STS-109 Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, along with the Spacehab double module used on STS-107.
Faculty and alumni of Rochester make up nearly one-quarter of the scientists on the board advising NASA in the development of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will replace the Hubble Space Telescope as of 2011.
** STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
Prior to Return to Flight, NASA Administrator Sean O ' Keefe declared that all future flights of the shuttle would go to the ISS, precluding the possibility of executing the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission which had been scheduled before the Columbia accident, despite the fact that millions of dollars worth of upgrade equipment for Hubble were ready and waiting in NASA warehouses.
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.
This image from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.
A picture of the Jupiter 2009 impact event blemish captured by the Keck II telescope and its NASA Infrared Telescope Facility | near-infrared camera at Mauna Kea Observatory, on July 20.
* Radio Telescope Developed-a brief history from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Before Looney and his wife started Looney Labs, they had both worked at NASA, where, in 1993, some of Looney's software was launched into orbit as part of the repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope .< ref name =" andybio ">
The APDA also possesses two high precision glass plate scanners, GAMMA I and GAMMA II, that were built for NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute ( STScI ).
Ward, WFPC2, Hubble Space Telescope | HST, NASA.
On October 7, 2009, the presence of water ice was confirmed on the surface of this asteroid using NASA ’ s Infrared Telescope Facility.
NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides the sharpest view of NGC 604 so far obtained.
The Subaru Telescope, the Keck I and II Telescopes, and the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
* Infrared Telescope Facility ( IRTF ): NASA
* NASA launches the Space Infrared Telescope Facility on a Delta 2 rocket.
* NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, an infrared telescope in Hawaii
* NASA Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope, California
GSFC manages operations for many NASA and international missions including the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ), the Explorer program, the Discovery Program, the Earth Observing System ( EOS ), INTEGRAL, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO ), the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ( RXTE ) and Swift.
POSS-II also exists in digitized form ( i. e., the photographic plates were scanned ), both in photographic form as the Digitized Sky Survey ( DSS )< ref > NASA / Space Telescope Science Institute ( STScI ).

NASA and Finds
* NASA Finds Lightning Clears Safe Zone in Earth's Radiation Belt

NASA and Asteroids
* NASA Asteroid Radar Search – The 228 Radar-Detected Asteroids: Asteroid 4769 Castalia
* NASA Asteroid Radar Research-Radar-Detected Asteroids: 1620 Geographos

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