NASA's tissue bioreactor can grow heart tissue, skeletal tissue, ligaments, cancer tissue for study, and other types of tissue.

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

* 2007 – NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.

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

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.

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

* 2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network.

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.

Applications range from structural elements such as steel-reinforced concrete, to the thermally insulative tiles which play a key and integral role in NASA's Space Shuttle thermal protection system which is used to protect the surface of the shuttle from the heat of re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

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

This nebula is depicted in one of NASA's most famous images, the " Pillars of Creation ".

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.

* November 27 – NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission is launched, the start of the satellite component of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System.

* May 30 – NASA's ATS-6 satellite is launched.

* January 23 – The last signal is received from NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft, some 7. 5 billion miles from Earth.

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

A launch of the Black Brant 9 Microcalorimeter at the turn of the century is a part of the joint undertaking by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center known as the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter ( XQC ) project.

To date, however, no efforts aimed at Neptune and Triton went beyond the proposal phase and NASA's funding on missions to the outer solar system is currently focused on the Jupiter and Saturn systems.

* The MAVEN spacecraft, part of NASA's Mars Scout Program, is set to launch in 2013.

Kepler is NASA's first mission capable of finding Earth-size and smaller planets.

Ames is the home of NASA's large research and development divisions in Advanced Supercomputing, Human Factors, and Artificial Intelligence ( Intelligent Systems ).

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

The HFFAF is currently configured to operate the light gas gun in support of continuing thermal imaging and transition research for NASA's hypersonics program.

NASA's new Polar Orbiting Density Scanner ( PODS ), part of the Earth Observation System ( EOS ), a collection of satellites monitoring the globe for signs of large-scale change, has found an extremely dense spot in the Milne Ice Shelf.

Inspired in part by NASA's budding Skylab program and an interest in better understanding the effectiveness of scientists working under extremely isolated living conditions, Tektite was the first saturation diving project to employ scientists rather than professional divers.

The machine was eventually decommissioned in 1982, and NASA's advanced computing division ended with it.

Dryden is NASA's premier site for aeronautical research and operates some of the most advanced aircraft in the world.

NASA's Centennial Challenge Program directly engages the public at large in the process of advanced technology development that is of value to NASA ’ s missions and to the aerospace community.

Dr. Jones performed advanced program planning for NASA's Solar System Exploration Division, investigating future robotic missions to Mars, asteroids, and the outer solar system.

Housed on the campus of NASA's former Electronics Research Center, the Center opened as the Transportation Systems Center thanks to growing congressional awareness of the need to apply advanced technology to national transportation problems and the efforts of then-U. S. Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe, as well as those of the Massachusetts congressional delegation.

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

* 2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

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.

* February 19 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

What NASA's website describes as " improper operation of the Atlas airborne beacon equipment " caused the booster to lose contact with one of the guidance systems on the ground, setting the stage for an apparent software-related guidance system failure.

* The SSTV system used in NASA's early Apollo missions transferred ten frames per second with a resolution of 320 frame lines using less bandwidth than a normal TV transmission.

* NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to leave the solar system.

* 2002 — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory identifies double galactic black holes system in merging galaxies NGC 6240

Teams at Marshall manage NASA's programs for exploring the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and other bodies throughout our solar system.

The trajectories that enabled NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft to tour the four gas giant planets and achieve velocity to escape our solar system

A field-sequential color television system similar to his Tricolor system was used in NASA's Voyager mission in 1979, to take pictures and video of Jupiter.

Although this system was not chosen as a primary candidate for the now-canceled Terrestrial Planet Finder, it was a target star for NASA's proposed Space Interferometry Mission to search for Earth-sized planets.

McMurdo Station receives both Internet and voice communications by satellite communications with NASA's TDRS satellite system.

In the early 1990s KDA was involved with NASA's JPL and Germany's DASA in software development of the test / checkout system, as well as spacecraft hardware production, for the NASA / ESA Cassini-Huygens space probe.

* Crew Exploration Vehicle, NASA's proposed human spaceflight system, now known as Orion

NASA's missions ( and therefore Goddard ’ s missions ) address a broad range of scientific questions generally classified around four key areas: Earth sciences, astrophysics, heliophysics, and the solar system.

The AppleLink software was configured with a special Macintosh Communications ToolBox Connection Tool that interfaced to NASA's communication system which allowed the Shuttle to call up GEIS ' network from space.

XIPS was used as the primary propulsion system on NASA's Deep Space 1 ( launched in 1998 ).

A typical real-time operating system running on NASA's RAD6000 installations is VxWorks.

* Space Network, a NASA's relay satellite system