Another fairly detailed vehicle system, designed and optimized for crewed Solar System exploration, " Discovery II ", based on the D < sup > 3 </ sup > He reaction but using hydrogen as reaction mass, has been described by a team from NASA's Glenn Research Center.

Soviet-built thrusters were introduced to the West in 1992 after a team of electric propulsion specialists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Glenn Research Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory, under the support of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, visited Soviet laboratories and experimentally evaluated the SPT-100 ( i. e., a 100 mm diameter SPT thruster ).

Government and government funded centers include NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's Glenn Research Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory ( Edwards AFB, CA ), and The Aerospace Corporation.

Pewee became the basis for current NTR designs being researched at NASA's Glenn and Marshall Research Centers.

NASA's Glenn Research Center has proposed a small aspect ratio spherical torus reactor for its " Discovery II " conceptual vehicle design.

Three days prior to NASA's announcement, various radio stations were reporting that NASA had decided to send Glenn back into space.

Development started in 1956 at NASA's Lewis Research Center, now the Glenn Research Center, but proceeded slowly, with the first ( unsuccessful ) test flight in May 1962.

NASA's administrator, Sean O ' Keefe, in the presence of John Glenn, announced the members of the " 19th group of Astronaut Candidates ", an event which has not been repeated since 1958 when the original group of astronauts was presented to the world.

It became clear that managing the Apollo program would exceed the capabilities of Robert Gilruth's Space Task Group, which had been directing the nation's manned space program from NASA's Langley Research Center.

Another example is CFD, a special variant of Fortran designed specifically for the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, running at NASA's Ames Research Center.

NASA's Ames Research Center managed the probe, which was built by Hughes Aircraft Company.

Bekker, now with General Motors Defense Research Laboratories ( GMDRL ) at Santa Barbara, California, was completing a study for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on a small, unmanned lunar roving vehicle for the Surveyor Program.

Research at NASA's Ames Research Center has demonstrated that a robotic Dragon would be capable of a fully propulsive landing on the Martian surface.

NASA reported the detection of water molecules by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in September 2009.

These Research & Development organizations support NASA's Exploration efforts, as well as the continued operations of the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, and the space science and Aeronautics work across NASA.

The theater shows movies with footage from NASA's explorations of Mars and the planets, and about the contributions of the scientists at NASA Ames Research Center.

* NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center

Doohan ( left ) visiting NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center with pilot Bruce Peterson 13 April 1967 in front of the Northrop M2-F2.

* Black Magic and Gremlins: Analog Flight Simulations at NASA's Flight Research Center by Gene L. Waltman

Designated as the Air Force Test Center ( AFTC ), Edwards is home to the 412th Test Wing, the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.

The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center.

In July 2011, after returning the piece of debris at NASA's request, the sixteen-year-old Schanze was given an all-access tour of the Kennedy Space Center as well as VIP seating for the launch of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.

The Spitzer Science Center ( SSC ), part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center located on the Caltech campus, is the data analysis and community support center for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

When it comes to the world's largest door, there is not just one, in fact there are four and they all belong to NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.

In the February 1964 issue of Popular Science, von Braun, then director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ), discussed the need for a lunar surface vehicle, and revealed that studies had been underway at MSFC in conjunction with Lockheed, Bendix, Boeing, General Motors, Brown Engineering, Grumman, and Bell Aerospace.

* 1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.

NASA's original Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas had pneumatic tubes connecting controller consoles with staff support rooms.

Rice acted as a temporary intermediary in the transfer of land between Humble Oil and Refining Company and NASA, for the creation of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center ( now called Johnson Space Center ) in 1962.

Most modern catalogues are available in electronic format and can be freely downloaded from NASA's Astronomical Data Center.

Following the conclusion of the ALT test flight program, on March 13, 1978, Enterprise was flown once again, but this time half way across the country to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ) in Alabama for the Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Testing ( MGVT ).

A reason Von Braun, head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center during the 1960s, advocated for a smaller station after his large one was not built was that he wished to provide his employees with work beyond developing the Saturn rockets, which would be completed relatively early during Project Apollo.

Huntsville is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and has strong community ties to the space program.

* Astrid spacecraft description — NASA's National Space Science Data Center site

* 2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

NASA's planned Space Interferometry Mission ( SIM PlanetQuest ) ( now cancelled ) was to utilize astrometric techniques to detect terrestrial planets orbiting 200 or so of the nearest solar-type stars, and the European Space Agency's GAIA ( due to launch in 2012 ), which will be applying astrometric techniques in its stellar census.

* 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

When Kennedy's newly appointed NASA Administrator James E. Webb requested a 30 percent budget increase for his agency, Kennedy supported an acceleration of NASA's large booster program but deferred a decision on the broader issue.

* 1960 – Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.

NASA's Helios Prototype | Helios researches solar power ed flight.

* 2007 – NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.

Image showing shock waves from NASA's X-43A hypersonic research vehicle in flight at Mach 7, generated using a computational fluid dynamics algorithm. On September 30, 1935 an exclusive conference was held in Rome with the topic of high velocity flight and the possibility of breaking the sound barrier.

NASA's bioreactor is an extremely advanced biological sewage system.

Another method is NASA's urine-to-water distillation system.

STS-51-F ( also known as Spacelab 2 ) was the nineteenth flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger.

In 1934, Caltech was elected to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech continues to manage and operate, were established between 1936 and 1943 under Theodore von Kármán.

* In 2004, General Dynamics completed a study for NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts.

NASA's Advanced Automation for Space Missions study directly inspired the science fiction novel Code of the Lifemaker ( 1983 ) by author James P. Hogan.

For example, NASA's workhorse space shuttle used cryogenic hydrogen / oxygen propellant as its primary means of getting into orbit, and all of the rockets built for the Soviet space program by Sergei Korolev used liquid oxygen as their oxidiser.

* 1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

The Autonav system, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, takes images of known bright asteroids.