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.

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.

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.

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.

Dowdy is now the Special Operations Manager at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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

* Robert R. Gilruth-First director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, now Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

Wakata was selected by the National Space Development Agency of Japan ( NASDA ) ( now JAXA ) as an astronaut candidate in 1992, and trained at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

He previously was head of the Computational Sciences Division ( now the Intelligent Systems Division ) at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw a staff of 200 scientists performing NASA's research and development in autonomy and robotics, automated software engineering and data analysis, neuroengineering, collaborative systems research, and simulation-based decision-making.

In February 1964, Low transferred to NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas ( now the Johnson Space Center ), and served as Deputy Center Director.

Once these changes had been made, NASA's booster project was now entirely free of any dependence on military developments.

During NASA's Project Mercury and the Apollo program, the United States space program had a missile tracking station on what is now Mayaguana Airport.

:" At NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center ( now renamed Johnson Space Center ) we had a test subject accidentally exposed to a near vacuum ( less than 1 psi ) Kilopascal | kPa in an incident involving a leaking space suit in a vacuum chamber back in ' 65.

From now until at least 2010, UND will play host to NASA's Douglas DC-8 " Flying Laboratory " research aircraft.

Charles Gordon Fullerton ( born October 11, 1936 ) is a retired United States Air Force officer, a former USAF and NASA astronaut and retired research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California.

NASA's weightless aircraft is retired.

Michael Allen Baker ( born October 27, 1953 ) is a retired Captain in the United States Navy, NASA astronaut, and the International Space Station Program Manager for International and Crew Operations, at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Roy Dubard Bridges, Jr. ( born July 19, 1943, in Atlanta, Georgia ) is an American aviator, retired United States Air Force officer, former NASA astronaut and the former director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center and Langley Research Center.

Evans retired from the U. S. Navy on April 30, 1976, with 21 years of service, and remained active as a NASA astronaut involved in the development of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.

Before he retired from NASA on September 3, 1994, after 30 years of service, Dr. Trainor had been associate director and chief scientist of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland for five years and the principal assistant to the center's director for the oversight of science, engineering, computing and technology.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

* Deep Space 1 Mission Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration

Project manager Stephen Merkowitz talks about his work with NASA's Space Geodesy Project, including a brief overview of the four fundamental techniques of space geodesy: GPS, VLBI, SLR, and DORIS.

NASA's Deep Space One was a very successful test of a prototype ion drive, which fired for a total of 678 days and enabled the probe to run down Comet Borrelly, a feat which would have been impossible for a chemical rocket.

* 2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

* 2011 – NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.

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.

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.

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.

The spacecraft was designed by Max Faget and NASA's Space Task Group.

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

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

Space Shuttle Challenger ( NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099 ) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia having been the first.

After its first flight in April 1983, Challenger quickly became the workhorse of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet, flying far more missions per year than Columbia.

Space Shuttle Columbia ( NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102 ) was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet.

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.

Shuttle related facilities represent over a quarter of NASA's inventory.

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.

Prior to the signing of this law, all commercial satellite launches in the United States were limited to NASA's Space Shuttle.

Furthermore, neither the Shuttle nor NASA's single SR-71B was operating on the days the booms had been registered.

All current spaceflight except NASA's Space Shuttle and the SpaceX Falcon 1 use multi-stage expendable launch systems to reach space.

The latter three are part of NASA's series of Great Observatories ; this series also includes the Spitzer Space Telescope, but this was not launched by a Space Shuttle and MSFC had no significant role in its development.

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory ( CGRO ) is another of NASA's Great Observatories ; it was launched April 5, 1991, on Shuttle flight STS-37.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Gold was a vocal critic of NASA's Space Shuttle program, deriding claims that the agency could fly 50 missions a year or that it could have low budget costs.

Imaging from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission STS-99 reveals part of the 180 kilometre ( 112 mi ) diameter ring of the crater ; clustered around the crater's trough are numerous sinkhole s, suggesting a prehistoric oceanic basin in the depression left by the impact.