In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.

* Suzaku, the name given in 2005 to an ASTRO-E spacecraft, a joint venture of NASA and the Japanese Space Agency JAXA

Due to a shift in priorities at NASA that favored manned space missions, the project lost funding in 2005.

* 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.

BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station.

Total Solar Irradiance upon Earth ( TSI ) was earlier measured by satellite to be roughly 1. 366 kilowatts per square meter ( kW / m² ), but most recently NASA cites TSI as " 1361 W / m² as compared to ~ 1366 W / m² from earlier observations et al., 2005 ", based on regular readings from NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment ( SORCE ) satellite, active since 2003, noting that this " discovery is critical in examining the energy budget of the planet Earth and isolating the climate change due to human activities.

In 2005 NASA Administrator Michael Griffin identified space colonization as the ultimate goal of current spaceflight programs, saying:

* The standard waterfall model for systems development NASA webpage, archived on Internet Archive March 10, 2005.

* Parametric Cost Estimating Handbook, NASA webpage based on the waterfall model, archived on Internet Archive March 8, 2005.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( MODIS ) on NASA ’ s Terra satellite captured the top image of the flooded Ghaghat and Atrai Rivers on October 12, 2005.

* Stacked ( 2005 )-as the Nightmare NASA Robot

It was eventually rolled into S. 1281, the NASA Authorization Act of 2005, passed by Congress on December 22, 2005, subsequently signed by the President, and stating in part:

NASA announced on January 27, 2005, that a first sample piece of an aluminum wafer was sent to scientists at Washington University in St. Louis for analysis.

On April 20, 2005, NASA announced that scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston had removed the four solar-wind collectors from an instrument called the concentrator and found them in excellent shape.

* Deep Impact ( spacecraft ), a 2005 NASA space mission

The team won a contract from NASA in June 2005.

* NASA Ambassador of Exploration ( 2005 )

* Astronomy Picture of the Day: 2005 November 13 – time-lapse animation of moon through one complete cycle, hosted by NASA

Due to a shift in priorities at NASA that favored manned space missions, the project lost funding in 2005, effectively cancelling the JIMO mission.

In 2005, Ciftcioglu and her research team at NASA used a rotating cell culture flask, which simulates some aspects of low-gravity conditions, to culture nanobacteria suspected of rapidly forming kidney stones in astronauts.

March 2005 saw NASA teaming up with the Pokémon Trading Card Game team to use Deoxys's likeness to educate children about outer space and the ozone layer.

The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum ’ s child mummy traveled to Stanford University in nearby Palo Alto on May 6, 2005 to be studied under CT scans and other high-resolution methods of remote sensing, in a collaboration between the museum, Silicon Graphics, and Stanford University Hospital and the NASA Biocomputational Lab.

In December 2005, just before the 40th anniversary of the Kecksburg crash, NASA released a statement to the effect that they had examined metallic fragments from the object and now claimed it was from a re-entering " Russian satellite ".

In April 2005, he joined the NASA Exploration Systems Advisory Committee ( ESAC ).

On 26 September 2005, Rabukawaqa revealed that the Military had decided to curtail certain operations in order to stay within its budget.

The Punjab Government decided in 2005 to replace two-stroke three-wheelers with CNG-fitted four-stroke rickshaws in Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Gujranwala.

On December 7, 2005, the Orioles decided not to offer him an arbitration contract, effectively ending his Baltimore Orioles tenure and making him a free agent.

Many cricket writers and statisticians, particularly Bill Frindall, have decided to ignore the ICC's ruling and have excluded the 2005 match from their records.

Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars ; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $ 1. 8 billion.

President Saleh was reported to have decided in 2005 not to run for another term in office, but was later convinced by a public demonstration calling him to continue as leader of the country to run again.

This would eventually lead to another court case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which went to trial on September 26, 2005 and was decided in U. S. District Court on December 20, 2005 in favor of the plaintiffs, who charged that a mandate that intelligent design be taught was an unconstitutional establishment of religion.

Finance Minister Ratu Jone Kubuabola announced on 27 October 2005 that the Cabinet had decided that it would not be in the country's interest to have a census and a general election in the same year.

Congolese culture minister Christoph Muzungu decided to reinstate the statue in 2005, pointing out the sense of liberating progress that had marked the beginning of the Free State and arguing that people should see the positive aspects of the king as well as the negative ; but just hours after the six-metre ( 20 ft ) statue was erected in the middle of a roundabout near Kinshasa's central station, it was taken down again without explanation.

In 2004 — 2005, through the success of a group of BBC employees ' restoration work on similar NTSC-only episodes of Doctor Who, the BBC decided to convert all their NTSC-only productions ( as reclaimed from various international stations ) back to their original PAL format using a new computer-controlled process, Reverse Standards Conversion.

Led by this, in October 2002, the Asian Racing Federation decided to designate South Korea as the host of the 30th Asian Racing Conference in May 2005.

Also, in June 2004, the International Cataloguing Standards Committee included Korea as one of the Part III countries, and decided to add seven South Korean Grade Races to the Blue Book list starting from 2005.

The Weinsteins operated Miramax with more creative and financial independence than any other division of Disney, until 2005 when they decided to leave the company and founded The Weinstein Company.

In May 2005, the provincial government decided to raise the status of Nankana Sahib to that of a district as a way of promoting development in the area.

In the summer of 2005, the board of the club decided to remove the tall fences around the pitch, replacing them with 90 cm high railings keeping the spectators off the grass.

In 2005 she attended a Unity Church service in Miami and decided that day to " go into a kind of religious school and study " on her 80th birthday.

In 2005, Lindheim decided to leave the band.

On February 22, 2005, the United States Supreme Court decided in Kelo v. City of New London, that the city may seize privately owned real property under eminent domain so that it could be used for private economic development, deciding the tax revenue from the private development satisfied the requirement for public interest for eminent domain.

Although Sony Pictures Television announced that the show was renewed for the 2004 – 2005 TV season, Lake decided not to continue with the show, opting to spend more time with her family and having relocated to Los Angeles.

Since the number of lost ballots exceeded the lead held ( by Steve Troxler over Britt Cobb ) in the statewide race for agriculture commissioner, the State Board of Elections decided to hold a special election on January 11, 2005, open only to the 18, 500 voters in the county who either failed to vote or whose votes were lost.

In 2005, however the Department of Corrections decided to make the prison an exclusive general purpose women's prison.

On 10 May 2005, it was announced that the project was to be shelved, with Child saying that he had decided that Knightmare would work best under a mixture of virtual reality and the original format.

In 2005, the Rams decided to move summer training to their own facilities in St. Louis, Missouri, ending the nine-year relationship.

In 2005 the government of Premier Jean Charest decided not to renew the clause, abrogate Article 5 of the Public Education Act, modify Article 41 of the Quebec Charter of Rights and then eliminate the choice in moral and religious instruction that existed previously and, finally, impose a controversial new Ethics and religious culture curriculum to all schools, even the private ones.