Its membership includes equivalent-level officials from the departments of state, commerce, and homeland security, the joint chiefs of staff, and NASA.

Since 1996, however, the collection has also included oral histories of senior NASA administrators and officials, astronauts, and project managers, part of a broader project to document the lives of key agency individuals.

Although Ford did not mention the campaign, the president, saying he was " partial to the name " Enterprise, directed NASA officials to change the name.

MOL competed for funding with a NASA station for the next five years and politicians and other officials often suggested that NASA participate in MOL or use the DoD design.

Grissom asserted he had done nothing to cause the hatch to blow, and NASA officials eventually concluded that he was correct.

In a joking nod to the sinking of his Mercury craft Grissom named the first Gemini spacecraft Molly Brown after the popular Broadway show The Unsinkable Molly Brown ; NASA publicity officials were unhappy with this name.

The Council of Chief State School Officers, a non-profit organization of public officials in education, was chosen by NASA to coordinate the selection process.

The finalists were interviewed by an evaluation committee composed of senior NASA officials, and the committee made recommendations to NASA Administrator James M. Beggs for the primary and backup candidates for the Teacher in Space Project.

NASA officials warned Gold that if he testified his concerns before Congress, his research proposals would lose their support from NASA.

The prospect of using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer was proposed by NASA officials.

These efforts continued until January 26, 2010 when NASA officials announced that the rover was likely irrecoverably obstructed by its location in soft soil,

At the conference Obama and top officials as well as leaders in space discussed the future of U. S. efforts in human space flight and unveiled a plan for NASA that follows the Augustine Panel's " Flexible Path to Mars " option, modifying Obama's prior proposal in two important respects:

The Hill reported in 1997 that Jackson Lee had asked NASA officials whether the Mars Pathfinder photographed the U. S. flag that Neil Armstrong had planted on Mars.

Later on the same day, NASA officials said that they were looking closely at a thermal blanket located next to the commander's window on the port side of the orbiter.

NASA officials decided to move up part of the servicing mission that had been scheduled for June 2000 after three of the telescope's six gyroscopes failed.

Pressure had come from a more directly involved constituency as well ; both NASA officials and the President himself had been lobbied by the " Mercury Seven " astronauts for a seventh Mercury mission.

After the existing Apollo program was chartered by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961 to land men on the Moon, it became evident to NASA officials that a follow-on to the Mercury program was required to develop certain spaceflight capabilities in support of Apollo.

In attendance that day, in addition to university administrators and NASA officials, was fellow Texas Tech graduate and future NASA astronaut, commander Rick Husband ( who would himself die seven years later in the STS-107 accident.

Astronaut Blaine Hammond claimed that his safety concerns about Mir were ignored by NASA officials, and that records of safety meetings " disappeared from a locked vault ".

NASA officials denied the scientists ’ claims shortly after they were released, however, and one of the scientists, Carol Stoker, backed off from her initial assertions.

NASA administrator Goldin was invited onto Nightline to defend the homes but he refused to comment.

Due to significant scientific inaccuracies, NASA refused to serve as a scientific adviser for the film.

Mueller accepted, on the condition that he have a say in NASA reorganization necessary to effectively administer Apollo.

Phillips ' superior officer Bernard Schriever agreed to loan Phillips to NASA, along with a staff of officers under him, on the condition that Phillips be made Apollo Program Director.

NASA announced the selection of seven of these – known as the Mercury Seven – as astronauts on 9 April 1959, though only six of the seven flew Mercury missions, after Slayton was grounded due to a heart condition.

Eastern was also cognizant of the proximity of Melbourne to the NASA Kennedy Space Center and introduced new air services accordingly.

United Airlines was also cognizant of the importance of Huntsville to the NASA space program and accordingly introduced twice daily nonstop Boeing 727-100 jet service to and from Los Angeles ( LAX ), another important aerospace center.

Notable and popular were the eight " Mike Mars " books for children, which explored different facets of the NASA space program.

During 1960, all of its civilian space programs were transferred to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the military space programs to the individual Services.

In March 1961 Singer and another University of Maryland physicist, E. J. Opik, were given a $ 97, 000 grant by NASA to conduct a three-year study of interplanetary gas and dust.

NASA engineers were able to recover the damaged tape recorder electronics, and Galileo continued to return scientific data until it was deorbited in 2003, performing one last scientific experiment — a measurement of the moon Amalthea's mass as the spacecraft swung by it.

So far the only benefits of this type have been " spin-off " technologies which were developed for space missions and then were found to be at least as useful in other activities ( NASA publicizes spin-offs from its activities ).

The NASA designs were conceived as replacements for the upper stages of the Saturn V launch vehicle, but the tests revealed reliability problems, mainly caused by the vibration and heating involved in running the engines at such high thrust levels.

On August 30, 2007, a group of JPL employees filed suit in federal court against NASA, Caltech, and the Department of Commerce, claiming their Constitutional rights were being violated by new, overly invasive background investigations.

A lifelong inventor, Lovelock has created and developed many scientific instruments, some of which were designed for NASA in its program of planetary exploration.

Due to health reasons these plans were cancelled, and they remained in the U. S., where Larry instead joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory after he finished graduate school.

In the NASA Apollo space missions to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, all onboard computations for primary guidance, navigation and control were provided by a small custom processor called " The Apollo Guidance Computer ".

Early planning and research were carried out by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ), but the program was officially conducted by its successor organization, NASA.

A number of Mercury boilerplate spacecraft ( including mockup / prototype / replica spacecraft, made from non-flight materials or lacking production spacecraft systems and / or hardware ) were also made by NASA and McDonnell Aircraft.

Mars Direct was featured on a Discovery Channel programs Mars: The Next Frontier in which issues were discussed surrounding NASA funding of the project, and on Mars Underground, where the plan is discussed more in-depth.

Recent research has been cited by NASA hypothesizing that a large number of Oort cloud objects are the product of an exchange of materials between the Sun and its sibling stars as they formed and drifted apart, and it is suggested that many-possibly the majority-of Oort cloud objects were not formed in close proximity to the Sun.

Due to Columbia's heavier weight, it was less ideal for NASA to use it for missions to the International Space Station, though modifications were made to the Shuttle during its last refit in case the spacecraft was needed for such tasks.

" The target dates were adjusted because critical payload hardware for STS-133 will not be ready in time to support the previously planned 16 September launch ," NASA said in a statement.

Food was also important ; early Apollo crews complained about its quality, and a NASA volunteer found living on the Apollo food for four days on Earth to be intolerable ; its taste and composition, in the form of cubes and squeeze tubes, were unpleasant.

Unnamed climate scientists from NASA, Stanford University and Princeton who were contacted by ABC News dismissed the same report as " fabricated nonsense .".

* Vacuum channel transistor: In 2012, NASA and the National Nanofab Center in South Korea were reported to have built a prototype vacuum channel transistor in only 150 nanometers in size, can be manufactured cheaply using standard silicon semiconductor processing, can operate at high speeds even in hostile environments, and could consume just as much power as a standard transistor.

The WMO's findings were later echoed by the NASA and the NOAA.

However by July 1963 NASA discovered 14 out of the 16 astronauts could not fit themselves into the cabin and later cockpits were modified.

All the artifacts were returned to them except the spacesuit, which NASA claimed was government property.

Although the Buran spacecraft was similar in appearance to the NASA Space Shuttle, and could similarly function as a re-entry spaceplane, the main engines during launch were on the Energia rocket and not taken into orbit on the spacecraft.