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.

NASA's Glenn Research Center cleanroom.

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.

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

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

NASA's transition plan has the program operating through 2010 with a transition and retirement phase lasting through 2015.

A supporter of NASA's manned space program, Hanks has said that he originally wanted to be an astronaut but " didn't have the math.

* NASA's Kepler mission has discovered examples of eclipsing binary stars where the secondary is the hotter component.

* 1990 — Preliminary results from NASA's COBE mission confirm the cosmic microwave background radiation has a blackbody spectrum to an astonishing one part in 10 < sup > 5 </ sup > precision, thus eliminating the possibility of an integrated starlight model proposed for the background by steady state enthusiasts.

From its initiation, MFSC has been NASA's lead center for the development of rocket propulsion systems and technologies.

Marshall Space Flight Center presently has capabilities and projects supporting NASA's mission in three key areas: Lifting from Earth ( Space Vehicles ), Living and Working in Space ( International Space Station ), and Understanding Our World and Beyond ( Advanced Scientific Research ).

Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that Epsilon Eridani actually has two asteroid belts and a cloud of exozodiacal dust.

Among other notable alumni, Andover has educated two American presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, NFL head coach Bill Belichick, Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, Lyman Spitzer, namesake of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, six Medal of Honor recipients, inventor Samuel Morse, and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

BioSentient has obtained the license to commercialize NASA's space-age technology known as Autogenic Feedback Training Exercise ( AFTE ), a patented technique that uses biofeedback and autogenic therapy to allow patients to monitor and control their physiology as a possible treatment for anxiety and stress-related disorders.

It has recently joined the team led by Lockheed Martin for a bid on NASA's Crew Exploration Vehicle ( CEV ), being in charge of the craft's Mission Module.

Congressman Tom McClintock ( R-CA ) has expressed " serious concerns with NASA's attempt to avoid holding a full and open competition to acquire the SLS.

In the House, Cramer was a tireless supporter of the International Space Station and a leading advocate for spending increases in missile defense, as Huntsville has long been a center for research and development of these two projects, as Redstone Arsenal — located in the district — is home of the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command ( AMCOM ) and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

For example, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has an agent that monitors inventory, planning, and scheduling equipment ordering to keep costs down, as well as food storage facilities.

Squyres has participated in many of NASA's planetary exploration missions.

He joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) as payload integration engineer that year and except for a three-year span in the early 1980s has worked at JPL since.

Bloomfield has served as Deputy Director of Flight Crew Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas since 2006, before resigning from NASA in July 2007.

She is a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and has served as NASA's Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office.

Horowitz has been active in advocating reorienting NASA's focus to human exploration of Mars, with the goals of permanent human outposts and settlements on the red planet.

It has been the home of NASA's high-performance aircraft research since it was founded for the X-1 program.