( NSBF )) is a NASA facility responsible for providing launch, tracking and control, airspace coordination, telemetry and command systems, and recovery services for unmanned, high altitude balloons.

* History of the NASA Scientific Balloon Flight Facility from which are launched stratospheric balloons each year

* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 16 into space.

In June 2001, NASA launched a second CMB space mission, WMAP, to make much more precise measurements of the great scale anisotropies over the full sky.

Over the years, NASA has launched a series of Explorer spacecraft carrying a wide variety of scientific investigations.

From 1972 to 1975 NASA launched the AEROS and AEROS B satellites to study the F region.

* 2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( LRO ), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.

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

The Mariner program was a program conducted by the American space agency NASA in conjunction with Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) that launched a series of robotic interplanetary probes designed to investigate Mars, Venus and Mercury from 1962 to 1973.

Challenger itself was replaced by the, which first launched in May 1992 and was constructed from structural spares that had been ordered by NASA as part of the construction contracts for Discovery and Atlantis.

Satellites have been launched and operated by NASA, ESA, Japanese Space Agency and the Soviet space program later succeeded by Roskosmos of Russia.

Skylab was a space station launched and operated by NASA ( the space agency of the United States ) and was the U. S .' s first space station.

** Ranger 6 is launched by NASA, on a mission to carry television cameras and crash-land on the Moon.

The shuttle program was formally launched on January 5, 1972, when President Nixon announced that NASA would proceed with the development of a reusable space shuttle system.

NASA originally planned to make the Hubble a Smithsonian museum display, but decided to keep it in space until a successor is launched.

To measure the spectrum of the diffuse X-ray emission from the interstellar medium over the energy range 0. 07 to 1 keV, NASA launched a Black Brant 9 from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico on May 1, 2008.

NASA launched an Echo satellite in 1960 ; the aluminized PET film balloon served as a passive reflector for radio communications.

Belonging to AT & T as part of a multi-national agreement between AT & T, Bell Telephone Laboratories, NASA, the British General Post Office, and the French National PTT ( Post Office ) to develop satellite communications, it was launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral on July 10, 1962, the first privately sponsored space launch.

On May 30, 1974, the first geostationary communications satellite in the world to be three-axis stabilized was launched: the experimental satellite ATS-6 built for NASA

NASA as well has launched experimental satellites using the K < sub > a </ sub > band recently.

In 2002, NASA launched the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ( GRACE ), wherein two twin satellites map variations in Earth's gravity field by making measurements of the distance between the two satellites using GPS and a microwave ranging system.

* 1962-- Earth-Success Ariel_1 The first British satellite in space, making UK the third country to launch a satellite ( built by NASA, launched on American rocket )

* Polar ( satellite ), a satellite launched by NASA in 1996

BMDO became better known in the public eye in 1994 when it launched a space probe, Clementine, to the Moon, in collaboration with NASA.

On October 11, 1958, Pioneer 1 became the first spacecraft launched by NASA, the newly formed space agency of the United States.

* 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

" While NASA went ahead with planning for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain given Eisenhower's ambivalent attitude to manned spaceflight.

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

* ( Part 1 ) NASA film on the Apollo 16 mission from the Internet Archive

* ( Part 2 ) NASA film on the Apollo 16 mission from the Internet Archive

* 2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.

Monthly global images from NASA Earth Observatory

The Mansfield Amendment, the end of the Vietnam War, and the end of the Apollo program reduced ARC's funding from ARPA and NASA.

* Latest El Niño / La Niña Data from NASA

The " FAQ " is an Internet textual tradition originating from the technical limitations of early mailing lists from NASA in the early 1980s.

ABC News said the same month that unnamed climate scientists from NASA, Stanford, and Princeton who spoke to ABC about the report dismissed it as " fabricated nonsense.

Its membership includes equivalent-level officials from the departments of state, commerce, and homeland security, the joint chiefs of staff, and NASA.

Harrison Hagan " Jack " Schmitt ( born July 3, 1935 ) is an American geologist, a retired NASA astronaut, university professor, and a former U. S. senator from New Mexico.

In August 1975, Schmitt resigned from NASA to seek election as a Republican to the United States Senate representing New Mexico.

Aeroponic techniques have been given special attention from NASA since a mist is easier to handle than a liquid in a zero gravity environment.

So far the only benefits of this type have been " spin-off " technologies which were developed for space missions and then were found to be at least as useful in other activities ( NASA publicizes spin-offs from its activities ).

The US Atomic Energy Commission and NASA tested a few designs from 1959 to 1968.

A NASA multi-center Technology Applications Assessment Team led from the Johnson Spaceflight Center, has as of January 2011 described " Nautilus-X ", a concept study for a multi-mission space exploration vehicle useful for missions beyond low earth orbit ( LEO ), of up to 24 months duration for a crew of up to six.

* 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.

JPL is a federally funded research and development center ( FFRDC ) managed and operated by Caltech under a contract from NASA.

In the early 1980s a group of researchers interested in the history of Iram used NASA remote sensing satellites, ground penetrating radar, Landsat program data and images taken from the Space Shuttle Challenger as well as SPOT data to identify old camel train routes and points where they converged.

* A good video introduction to Lunar Eclipses from NASA

Leonids as seen from space in 1997, NASA

On July 31, 2008, NASA announced that the Phoenix lander confirmed the presence of water on Mars, as predicted in 2002 based on data from the Odyssey orbiter.