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.

* 1999 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.

Starting with Explorer 6, it has been a NASA program, and they have worked with a variety of other institutions and business, including many international collaborations.

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.

A number of Mercury boilerplate spacecraft ( including mockup / prototype / replica spacecraft, made from non-flight materials or lacking production spacecraft systems and / or hardware ) were also made by NASA and McDonnell Aircraft.

The Mars Semi-Direct architecture has been used as the basis of a number of studies, including the NASA Design Reference Missions.

IBM eventually delivered fourteen models, including rare one-off models for NASA.

NASA footage including Grissom's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions was released in high definition on the Discovery Channel in June 2008 in the television series When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions.

Many dissenters, including astronauts, asked NASA management to reconsider allowing the mission, but initially the director stood firm.

In fiscal year 2009, NASA budget allocated $ 2. 98 billion for 5 launches to the program, including $ 490 million for " program integration ", $ 1. 03 billion for " flight and ground operations ", and $ 1. 46 billion for " flight hardware " ( which includes maintenance of orbiters, engines, and the external tank between flights.

In addition, LLNL conducts work-for-others research and development for various Defense Department sponsors, other federal agencies, including NASA, Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ), National Institutes of Health, and Environmental Protection Agency, a number of California State agencies, and private industry.

NASA engineers and astronauts have used duct tape in the course of their work, including in some emergency situations.

During Johnson's administration, NASA conducted the Gemini manned space program and the Apollo program, including Apollo 7 ; and the first human spaceflight to the Moon, Apollo 8, in December 1968.

They have five children, including the late Alan G. Poindexter, a NASA astronaut, Space Shuttle pilot on the STS-122 mission to the International Space Station, and the commander of STS-131.

FTA methodology is described in several industry and government standards, including NRC NUREG – 0492 for the nuclear power industry, an aerospace-oriented revision to NUREG – 0492 for use by NASA, SAE ARP4761 for civil aerospace, MIL – HDBK – 338 for military systems.

Bondar has received many honours including the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, the NASA Space Medal, over 22 honorary degrees and induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

Conspiracy theorists ( henceforth conspiracists ) base their claims on the notion NASA and others knowingly misled the public into believing the landings happened by manufacturing, destroying, or tampering with evidence ; including photos, telemetry tapes, transmissions, rock samples, and even some key witnesses.

RIT has collaborated with many industry players in the field of research as well, including IBM, Xerox, Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle, Siemens, NASA, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ).

More than 35 other notable organizations have joined the collaboratory, including Boeing, Eastman Kodak, IBM, Intel, International Sematech, ITT, Motorola, Xerox, and several Federal agencies, including as NASA.

* A decent scan of the NASA printed book, including figures: " The Problem of Space Travel " ( scan of the book )

The rad-hard version of the 8085 has been in on-board instrument data processors for several NASA and ESA space physics missions in the 1990s and early 2000s, including CRRES, Polar, FAST, Cluster, HESSI, the Sojourner Mars Rover, and THEMIS.

It is operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), and the City of Palmdale, and distance learning through a number of universities is available including Purdue, USC, University of San Diego, Pepperdine University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Caltech and Cal Poly Pomona.

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.

Almost all of the of the U. S. federal government / NASA owned property that makes up the JPL campus is today located in the city of La Cañada Flintridge, California, on the northwest border of Pasadena, with a La Cañada Flintridge address ( 4800 Oak Grove Drive, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011 ).

In the NASA Apollo space missions to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, all onboard computations for primary guidance, navigation and control were provided by a small custom processor called " The Apollo Guidance Computer ".

In the United States, NASA has a congressional mandate to catalogue all NEOs that are at least 1 kilometer wide, as the impact of such an object would be catastrophic.

Refitting the shuttle with all of the necessary equipment for it to be used in space was considered, but NASA decided to use spares constructed at the same time as Discovery and Atlantis to build Endeavour.

Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour all, until 1998, bore markings consisting of the letters " USA " afore an American flag on the left wing, and the pre-1998 NASA " worm " logo afore the respective orbiter's name on the right wing.

When NASA was formed in 1958, it was given authority over all non-nuclear aspects of the Rover program.

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.

( After all, even in one later NASA account, the supposed " hyphen " is reported as missing from instructions at one point in the text, and from equations at another ).

The Intelligent Systems Division is NASA's leading R & D Division developing advanced intelligent software and systems for all of NASA Mission Directorates.

NASA had taken all the original tapes and erased them for use on subsequent missions ; however, the Apollo 11 Tape Search and Restoration Team formed in 2003 tracked down the highest quality footage among the converted recordings of the first broadcast, pieced together the best footage, then contracted a specialist film restoration company to enhance the degraded black-and-white film and convert it into digital format for archival records.

** Futurama A Big Piece of Garbage NASA sends all of Earth's garbage into space in a cluster of a giant sphere aboard a rocket ( 2000 )

Similar cable-bus systems are in operation at a number of government sites, e. g. Walter Reed Army Hospital, and the NASA Johnson Space Center, but these are all standalone, local-only networks.

More recently a rock returned from the moon was displayed in a window in the Tribune giftstore ( it could not be added to the wall as NASA owns all moon rocks, and it is merely on loan to the Tribune ), and a piece of steel recovered from the World Trade Center has been added to the wall.

The Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA and members of other organizations.

The procurement, design and manufacturing of GOES is overseen by NASA, while all operations of the satellites once in orbit are done by NOAA.

Syncom ( for " synchronous communication satellite ") started as a 1961 NASA program for active geosynchronous communication satellites, all of which were developed and manufactured by Hughes Space and Communications.

During all this Collins and David Scott were sent by NASA to the Paris Air Show in May 1967.

The Flat Earth Society recruited members by attacking the United States government and all of its agencies, particularly NASA.

On October 21, 1959, he approved the transfer of all Army space-related activities to NASA.

Participants in the plan include all military services, industry, and NASA.

On October 21, 1959, President Eisenhower approved the transfer of all Army space-related activities to NASA.

Along the way, moreover, the NSF's astronomy program has forged a close working relationship with that of NASA, which was also founded in 1958: just as NASA has responsibility for the U. S. effort in space-based astronomy, the NSF provides virtually all the U. S. federal support for ground-based astronomy.