As a designated space grant college, member of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, member of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and Carnegie Research University with high research activity ( RU / H ), Louisiana Tech conducts research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.

Texas Tech has made numerous contributions to NASA projects.

The Texas Tech Space Research Initiative has also partnered with NASA to perfect methods for growing fresh vegetables in space and to determine the most efficient ways to recycle wastewater.

After his departure from NASA, he led the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1992 to 1997, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory from 1997 to 2005.

Montana Tech Computer Science faculty have partnered with NASA to foster the growth of NASA related funded research at Montana institutions.

Distinguished Alumni Achievement, Virginia Tech, 1998 ; Distinguished Alumnus 1997, Tennessee Technological University ; NASA Exceptional Performance Award, 1989 ; NASA Special Achievement Award, 1983 ; Certificates for Patents / applications 1975, 85, 86, 87 ; Certificates for innovative technology 1973, 76, 79, 80, 81, 85, 86, 87 ; Floyd Thompson Fellowship 1979-80.

* NASA Tech Brief

Following his graduation from Virginia Tech in 1944, Kraft was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ), the predecessor organization to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ).

In attendance that day, in addition to university administrators and NASA officials, was fellow Texas Tech graduate and future NASA astronaut, commander Rick Husband ( who would himself die seven years later in the STS-107 accident.

* 1983-Certificate of Recognition ( NASA Invention Disclosures ) and Certificate of Recognition ( NASA Tech Brief Publication ),

The commemoration's major partners included Colonial Williamsburg, NASA, the U. S. Mint, the U. S. Postal Service, the Virginia Arts Festival and Virginia Tech.

Nainiger, Joseph J .; Burns, Raymond K .; Easley, Annie J. NASA, Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA NASA Tech Memo 82729 Mar 1982 31p

Some NASA Tech Briefs 1999, 23, 90 open access publication.

* " Estimating Rates of Single-Event Upsets ", J. Zoutendyk, NASA Tech Brief, Vol.

* Brief NASA biography

* NASA Certificate of Recognition for Technical Brief ( 1991 )

* Brief descriptions of spacecraft shielding by NASA

* Brief mention of Round Hill's use by NASA in 1960

The Anti Drug Athletes United ( ADAU ) and 100 % Raw Federation allow no supportive gear to be worn by the lifter while the IPF, AAU, NASA, U. S. A. P. L, Iron Boy and the ADFPF only allow a single-ply tight polyester squat suit, deadlift suit and bench shirt, wraps for knees and wrists, and a belt.

Upsilon Andromedae A was ranked 21st in the list of top 100 target stars for the NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder mission, which has, however, been reported to have been cancelled as of 2011.

Press interest, due to the satellite broadcast and the new center in Houston, proved to be so high that NASA had to lease buildings to accommodate the 1, 100 print and broadcast journalists who requested accreditation.

Although the Obama administration has not approved a budget for NASA as of March 2011, the currently proposed budget would actually increase funding to Glenn Research Center by $ 100 million.

As NASA Administrator, Glennan presided over an organization that had absorbed the earlier National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) intact ; its 8, 000 employees, an annual budget of US $ 100 million, and three major research laboratories — Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory — and two small test facilities made up the core of the new NASA.

In 1989, while piloting a NASA T-38 to Washington, D. C. for ceremonies honoring the crew of STS-30, Walker came within 100 ft ( 30 m ) of striking a Pan Am jetliner.

As the senior management official of the laboratory employing approximately 2, 100 NASA civil service and 1, 800 contractor personnel, Bridges was responsible for the Center ’ s aeronautical and space research programs, as well as facilities, personnel, and administration.

NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, Two NASA Space Flight Medals, 1990 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Award, Awarded Aviation Week & Space Technology Aerospace Laureate in Space and Missiles for 1991, Hispanic Engineer magazine 1992 Hispanic Engineer of the Year National Achievement Award, Aviation Week and Space Technology Citation for Aerospace Laureate in Space and Missiles for 1994, 1994 selected by Hispanic Business magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics, selected by Hispanic Magazine for the 1995 Hispanic Achievement Award in Science, 1995 inductee into the International Space Hall of Fame, Distinguished Graduate of the USAF Academy ; awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal, and Air Training Command Master Instructor.

After the study was completed, NASA realized that a minor system modification was needed to achieve 100 % global coverage.

Workers at Wallops include approximately 1, 000 full-time NASA civil service employees and contractors, 30 U. S. Navy personnel, and 100 NOAA employees.

Led by material scientists at Air Force Research Lab, the technique would save the costs of constructing and installing large structure autoclaves ($ 100M saved at NASA ) and making small production runs of 100 aircraft economically viable.

Systems of about the same size and form-factor as the Model 100, aimed at journalists, were sold by companies such as Teleram, as the Teleram T-3000 and GRiD Systems, as the GRiD Compass, which was used by NASA.

At this time a small group at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center analysed the flight dynamics and aerodynamics of sailplane flight up to 100, 000 feet.

Careful analysis of imagery and topographic conditions on the lunar South Pole by teams from NASA and Europe revealed a small number of illuminated ridges within 15 km from the pole, each of them much like an island of no more than a few hundred meters across in an ocean of eternal darkness, where a lander could receive near-permanent lighting (~ 70 – 90 % of time in lunar winter, likely 100 % in lunar summer ).

During his scientific career Knudsen authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific articles, and was a longtime advisor to NASA.

NASA currently has about 1, 100 eggs at the space center site incubating.

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.

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 management was concerned about losing the 400, 000 workers involved in Apollo after landing on the moon in 1969.

* November 10 – November 12 – Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within 77, 000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.

This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10, 000 year period, from 4000 BC to 6000 AD ( eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA / GSFC. DEPP ).

For comparison, the similarly sized NASA Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity had, by their fifth anniversary in January 2009, traveled a total of and transmitted over 125, 000 images.

According to a NASA press release, APOLLO researcher Tom Murphy said, " We got about 2, 000 photons from Lunokhod 1 on our first try.

" Former NASA sonic boom expert Dom Maglieri studied the 15-year old sonic boom data from the California Institute of Technology and has deemed that the data showed " something at 90, 000 ft ( c. 27. 4 km ), Mach 4 to Mach 5. 2 ".

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.

In 1985, McAuliffe was selected from more than 11, 000 applicants to participate in the NASA Teacher in Space Project and was scheduled to become the first teacher in space.

The F-1's thrust chambers, nozzles, and entire engines were validated for NASA and tested with more than 5, 000 firings on Luehman Ridge.

It was attended by 6, 000 NASA employees and 4, 000 guests, as well as by the families of the crew.

In 1960 NASA awarded Western Electric a contract worth over $ 33, 000, 000 for construction and engineering of the Mercury tracking network, and to provide the training of the remote-site flight controllers and Mercury control center operations personnel.

The Rogallos released their patent to the government, and with Rogallo's help at the wind tunnels, NASA began a series of experiments testing the Parawing, ( NASA renamed the Rogallo wing the Parawing, and modern hang glider pilots often refer to it as the flexible Rogallo wing ) at altitudes up to 200, 000 feet and as fast as Mach 3 in order to evaluate them as alternative recovery system for the Gemini space capsules and used rocket stages.

After the Columbia disaster in February 2003, Casper became the NASA Mishap Investigation Team's deputy for the Columbia debris recovery operation, which involved directing the efforts of over 6, 000 ground, air, and water search personnel, as well as protection and impoundment of debris.

More than 11, 000 teachers applied for the program ; in 1985, NASA selected Christa McAuliffe to be the first teacher in space with Barbara Morgan as her backup.

Finally, in cooperation with the US Postal Service, the mission also carried 260, 000 postal covers franked with $ 9. 35 express mail stamps, which were to be sold to collectors, with the profits divided between the USPS and NASA.

After the de-orbit burn has been completed, the service module is then jettisoned, allowing it to burn up in the atmosphere while the crew module re-enters in the same manner as all NASA spacecraft prior to the Shuttle, using the ablative heat shield to both deflect heat from the spacecraft and to slow it down from a speed of 28, 000 km / h ( 17, 500 mph or Mach 5 ) to 480 km / h ( 300 mph or Mach 0. 5 ).

NASA calculated that flying Walker would cost McDonnell Douglas $ 40, 000 per flight, and in May 1983 he was assigned to STS-41-D.

In December 2006, Dr. Young K. Bae successfully demonstrated the photon thrust amplification in PLT for the first time with an amplification factor of 3, 000 under NASA sponsorship ( NIAC ).