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.

* 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.

Many examples of early usage are provided in Craig Larman and Victor Basili's article " Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History ", with one of the earliest being NASA's 1960s Project Mercury.

Astronomers have been conducting surveys to locate the NEOs, many ( as of early 2007 ) funded by NASA's Near Earth Object ( NEO ) program office as part of their Spaceguard program.

An early prototype can be seen in NASA's collection of humanoid robots, or robonauts.

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.

The result, Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar, was to have been the first orbital spaceplane, but was canceled in the early 1960s in lieu of NASA's Project Gemini and the U. S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.

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.

As early as the 1960s, NASA's Application Technology Satellite ( ATS ) and Advanced Communications Technology Satellite ( ACTS ) programs prototyped many of the technologies used on TDRSS and other commercial communications satellites, including frequency division multiple-access ( FDMA ), three-axis spacecraft stabilization and high-performance communications technologies.

" The changes were discussed as early as mid-August 2005, and Dr. Waleed Abdalati, manager of NASA's Cryospheric Sciences Program, noted at the time that " There was some discussion of the political sensitivities of the exhibit.

Mercury-Atlas 10 ( MA-10 ) was a cancelled early manned space mission, which would have been the last flight in NASA's Mercury program.

SpaceDev built and conducted early orbit operations of the Low Earth Orbit ( LEO ) microsat, the first to use only the Internet for its communications, for University of California at Berkeley under NASA's University Explorer Program ( UNEX ).

Approximately 365 Agena spacecraft supported a wide variety of missions, from NASA's early interplanetary efforts ; to the US Navy's SeaSat, the USAF's Corona, Midas and Samos series between January 1959 and February 1987, when the last Agena D was launched.

The Air Force Meteorologists and NASA's Observational Scientists desired higher apogees with the ROBINSphere payloads in the early 1970s.

Sonmiani Satellite Launch Center was planned and constructed by U. S .' s space agency, NASA in the early 1962s when a team of NASA's engineers visited Pakistan.

An early proponent of increased investment in robotic systems, Engelberger published articles and gave Congressional testimony on the value of using automation in space long before successes of the NASA's Mars landers, Galileo, and other unmanned space science missions.

During the 1980s and early 1990s this GCM was one of NASA's primary research tools used in the study of global climate change.

Before developing the food processor in the early 1970s, he invented a number of other devices, including a microwave-based direction finder used during NASA's moon program.

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.

Gemini 10 ( officially Gemini X ) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.

NASA's Space Shuttle program, officially called Space Transportation System ( STS ), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011.

The program formally commenced in 1972, although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, and was the sole focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s.

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.

Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program.

The Vehicle ( originally Vertical ) Assembly Building, or VAB, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) was used to assemble and an American manned launch vehicles from 1968-2011.

Schweickart, chosen in NASA's third astronaut group, is best known as the Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 9 mission, the first manned flight test of the LM, on which he performed the first in-space test of the Portable Life Support System used by the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon.

Gemini 4 ( or Gemini IV ) was the second manned space flight in NASA's Project Gemini, occurring in June 1965.

Gemini 5 ( officially Gemini V ) was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.

Gemini 7 ( officially Gemini VII ) was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.

Gemini 6A ( officially Gemini VI-A ) was a 1965 manned United States spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.

Gemini 8 ( officially Gemini VIII ) was the sixth manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.

Gemini 9A ( officially Gemini IX-A ) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.

NASA's Space Shuttle was the first manned vehicle to use solid-fueled boosters as strap-ons.

Gemini 11 ( officially Gemini XI ) was the ninth manned spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini, which flew from September 12 to 15, 1966.

Gemini 12 ( officially Gemini XII ) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini.

In 2009, concerned by price increases on the program, U. S. President Obama ordered a review of the project which indicated that both returning to the Moon and manned flights to Mars were out of NASA's current budget.

The Orion Mars mission plan for NASA's Constellation program is a manned mission with the intent to land humans on Mars in the 2030s.

He researched at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and was selected by NASDA as an astronaut candidate in 1985 for the Japanese manned space program while also conducting research in the United States at NASA's Lewis Research Center and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He also received that year the Collier Trophy for his role in assisting NASA's return to launching manned missions after the Challenger disaster.

The manned and unmanned Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicles currently planned as part of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration both rely heavily on modified versions of the current Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters.

The system was designed to replace an existing network of ground stations that had supported all of NASA's manned flight missions.