However, senior NASA planners envisioned no more than 10 to 12 flights per year for the entire shuttle fleet.

In an unprecedented move, Soviet planners offered to inform their NASA counterparts of the time of the launch, as long as they did not reveal that time to the press.

Aided by cleaning events that resulted in higher power from its solar panels, Spirit went on to function effectively over twenty times longer than NASA planners expected following mission completion.

At the time, Don Cholito joked that he had invented a contraption, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) ( which in reality does not do meteorological work ), what reportedly took the wind out of major hurricanes and either deflated them or veered them off course as to not hit Puerto Rico.

In 1948, Gertrude Rogallo, and her husband Francis Rogallo, a NASA engineer, invented a self-inflating flexible wing they called the Parawing, also known after them as the " Rogallo Wing " and flexible wing.

Over subsequent decades, Goodrich Company chemists invented plasticized polyvinyl chloride ( PVC ) in 1926 ; synthesized rubber in 1937 ; and built early space suits for NASA astronauts in the 1960s.

Fisher invented it independently, and then asked NASA to try it.

Three years later, NASA addressed the issue of planetary engineering officially in a study, but used the term " planetary ecosynthesis " instead.

* Standby, the term NASA uses in air-to-ground radio communications for expressing " please wait "

NASA originated the term ‘ paraglider ’ in the early 1960s, and ‘ paragliding ’ was first used in the early 1970s to describe foot-launching of gliding parachutes.

Arachniography is a term coined by NASA research historian Andrew J. Butrica, which means a reference list of URLs about a particular subject.

The term was created by Patrick Moore during his co-authoring of NASA Technical Report R-277 Chronological Catalog of Reported Lunar Events, published in 1968.

The term black hole was coined in 1967 during a talk he gave at the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies ( GISS ).

In 1979, Presidential Directive 54 under President of the United States Jimmy Carter transferred Landsat operations from NASA to NOAA, recommended development of long term operational system with four additional satellites beyond Landsat 3, and recommended transition to private sector operation of Landsat.

Feynman was clearly disturbed by the fact that NASA management not only misunderstood this concept, but in fact inverted it by using a term denoting an extra level of safety to describe a part that was actually defective and unsafe.

* NASA climate scientist James Hansen uses the term global warming in testimony to the United States Congress bringing it to public attention.

During his term, NASA publishes the first issue of LINE magazine, has representatives involved on AIA committees and hosts many interesting programs at the Octagon.

This term was not used by NASA for the nine Apollo flights that flew by, orbited, or landed on the Moon between 1968 and 1972.

During her term as Director of New Media at the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium, Terenzi arranged and hosted events including " National Astronomy Day ", produced Planetarium Shows including " Stars of the Seasons / Stars of the Sea ", developed content for grants including a NASA grant to deliver earth / space science on-line for high schools, and spoke at events from the NSF funded " Girls in Science " program, to the Florida Planetarium Directors Association, to the international State of the World Forum in New York.

* Orbiter Vehicle, a term for a NASA Space Shuttle

Kirk Sorensen, former NASA scientist and Chief Nuclear Technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering, has been a long-time promoter of the thorium fuel cycle, coining the term liquid fluoride thorium reactor.

The term " sensor web " was first used by Kevin Delin of NASA in 1997,

Use of the term " MTC " as the name of a planetary standard time for Mars first appeared in the Mars24 sunclock coded by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

" The museum features many one-of-a-kind artifacts, including the Gemini VIII spacecraft, Neil Armstrong's Gemini and Apollo spacesuits, and a lunar sample-the NASA term for a Moon rock.

Space suits are generally worn during launch and landing by NASA crew members and always for extra-vehicular activities ( EVAs ).

On 11 June 2007, NASA mission managers announced a two-day extension of the mission, adding a fourth extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ).

* Lunar Electric Rover, a vehicle designed by NASA for extra-vehicular activity on the lunar surface.

Heliophysicist Alex Young from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's predictions for solar activity in 2012.

The NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes ( RBSP ) mission will go further and gain scientific understanding ( to the point of predictability ) of how populations of relativistic electrons and ions in space form or change in response to changes in solar activity and the solar wind.

The radio waves were originally thought to be generated by turbulence in the radiation belts, but recent work by James Green of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center comparing maps of lightning activity collected by the Micro Lab 1 spacecraft with data on radio waves in the radiation-belt gap from the IMAGE spacecraft suggests that they are actually generated by lightning within Earth's atmosphere.

As a designated space grant college, member of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, member of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and Carnegie Research University with high research activity ( RU / H ), Louisiana Tech conducts research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.

NASA astronauts of Space Shuttle mission STS-109 remove FOC during an Extra-vehicular activity | EVA

Before it was cancelled by President Barack Obama in early 2010, the Constellation Program had been a major activity in NASA since 2004.

A solar cycle: a montage of ten years ' worth of Yohkoh SXT images, demonstrating the variation in solar activity during a sunspot cycle, from after August 30, 1991, to September 6, 2001. Credit: the Yohkoh mission of Institute of Space and Astronautical Science | ISAS ( Japan ) and NASA ( US ).

On 25 October 2006, NASA launched STEREO, two near-identical spacecraft which from widely separated points in their orbits will produce the first stereoscopic images of CMEs and other solar activity measurements.

Houston and Los Angeles were the locations of major aerospace activity associated with the NASA space program at the time as was Melbourne due to its close proximity to the NASA Kennedy Space Center.

In the 2011 United States federal budget, Wolf inserted a clause prohibiting NASA and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from any joint scientific activity with China for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year.

The Mars Science Laboratory mission is a NASA spacecraft launched on November 26, 2011 that deployed the Curiosity rover, a nuclear-powered robot bearing instruments designed to look for past or present conditions relevant to biological activity ( planetary habitability ).

Then, in August 2002, another NASA team led by Thomas-Keptra published a study indicating that 25 % of the magnetite in ALH 84001 occurs as small, uniform-sized crystals that, on Earth, is associated only with biologic activity, and that the remainder of the material appears to be normal inorganic magnetite.

The Advanced Communications Technology Satellite ( ACTS ), a significant activity of the NASA Space Communications Program, provided for the development and flight test of high-risk, advanced communications satellite technology.

The 2007 NASA budget stipulated, " SIM Phase B activity will continue while new cost and schedule plans are developed, consistent with recent funding decisions.

NASA has stated that the information can eventually be recovered by subtracting out the effects of the solar activity.

Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton ( Ph. D .) ( born August 17, 1952 in Montgomery, Alabama ) is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of extravehicular activity.

The Bio-Suit is an experimental space activity suit under construction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the direction of professor Dava Newman, with support from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts.

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* 2009 activity at Soufrière Hills Volcano, from NASA Earth Observatory

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The Galeras Volcano, aerial image by NASA showing its activity.