United States Patent and Trademark Office Some of the highlights of McCulloh ’ s inventions inspired NASA's new X-38 crew rescue vehicle ( NASA X-38 ).

The establishment on NASA's Johnson Space Center in 1963 soon created new growth opportunities for the county municipalities near Clear Lake and Harris County.

In the future, the VAB will be used to prepare commercial launch vehicles, and for the use of NASA's new Space Launch System.

On 16 June 2008 NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer project reported finding large numbers of new stars in the outer reaches of the galaxy.

This work secured the center's future in the near term, and signalled a shift in priority for the center from aeronautical research to space exploration, aligning itself closer with NASA's new mission.

Tony and Roger use NASA's powerful new computer and horoscopic guidance based on Jeannie's traits to calculate it.

Violent gas collisions that produced supersonic shock fronts in a dying star are seen in a new, detailed image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

The 400 included a new glass cockpit that was developed on NASA's own 300 under the AGATE program, and was later put into the production model 300 to produce the Columbia 350 in 2002.

In March 1986 he was assigned duties as Assistant ( Operations ) to the Space Shuttle Program Manager, as well as first Chairman of NASA's new Space Flight Safety Panel: jobs he held until February 1988 and 1989 respectively.

In December 2003, Buzz Aldrin voiced criticism for NASA's vision and objectives, stating that the goal of sending astronauts back to the moon was " more like reaching for past glory than striving for new triumphs ".

* ARTEMIS-P1 and ARTEMIS-P2, the new names of NASA's probes THEMIS-B and THEMIS-C

Mariner Mark II class spacecraft developed for NASA by JPL were a new design approach advocated by NASA's Solar System Exploration Committee and were intended for flights in the 1990s to the outer planets and primitive bodies, such as comets and asteroids.

Secondly, of the funding over the next five years that Bush has proposed, only US $ 1 billion will be in new appropriations while the remaining US $ 11 billion will be reallocated from NASA's other programs, and therefore inadequate to fully realize this vision.

However, NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer space probe identified new dwarf galaxies forming out of gases lacking metals.

Roberto Roena ’ s new orchestra was baptized " El Apollo Sound " because the launch of NASA's Apollo 11 lunar mission coincided with the day of the band ’ s first rehearsal.

Columbia, the first of NASA's reusable space shuttles, makes its maiden flight, ten years in development, the shuttle will make space travel routine and eventually open the path for a new International Space Station.

After the two probes of the 1998 project, Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, were both lost, NASA's " better, faster, cheaper " exploration philosophy was re-evaluated, with a particular eye on the two 2001 project probes.

Data from NASA's Polar program confirms that the average elevation change above " was not significant ".

* He led the Magnetic Fields Experiments on NASA's Polar satellite to map the earth's magnetosphere.

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 was in the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program at the time, and could have become among the first African-American astronauts had he survived to take NASA's offer for all under-35 MOL candidates to join their space program when MOL was scrapped in 1969.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* Orion ( spacecraft ), NASA's Space Shuttle replacement

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 the aftermath NASA's shuttle timetable was disrupted, and Columbia was not flown again until 1989 ( on STS-28 ), after which it resumed normal service as part of the shuttle fleet.

The Simpson Desert from space by NASA's Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( MODIS ), showing dust storm on 16 December 2007

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.

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.

* Richard G. Smith ( engineer ) ( born 1929 ), director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center

* Charles Edward Jones ( 1952 – 2001 ), former member of NASA's astronaut group, victim of the September 11, 2001, attacks

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.

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 ).

In 1961, Pearlington was one of six communities in Hancock County, Mississippi acquired either wholly ( Gainesville, Logtown, Napoleon, Santa Rosa, and Westonia ) or in part ( a section of northern Pearlington ), along with a combined population of 700 families who were completely relocated to provide a acoustical buffer zone for what was envisioned to be NASA's main rocket testing facility, the John C. Stennis Space Center ( SSC ).

* International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project ( ISCCP ), NASA's data products on their satellite observations

In remote sensing applications where a digital image pixel may represent several kilometers of spatial distance ( such as NASA's LANDSAT imagery ), an uncertain image registration can mean that a solution could be several kilometers from ground truth.

This was an Analysis of Alternatives ( AoA ) study led by NASA's Program Analysis and Evaluation ( PA & E ) office with support from outside consultants, the Aerospace Corporation, NASA Langley Research Center ( LaRC ), and SAIC ( amongst others ).

It was the first spaceflight of an American woman ( Sally K. Ride ), the largest crew to fly in a single spacecraft up to that time ( five people ), and the first flight that included members of NASA's Group 8 astronaut class selected in 1978 to fly the Space Shuttle.

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.

This, and the requirements for high thrust, low weight, and crushability ( in case of landing on a large rock ), earned surprising praise from NASA's history pages, considering the complexity of the lunar missions: " The lunar module descent engine probably was the biggest challenge and the most outstanding technical development of Apollo ".