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NASA and sent
On April 20, Kennedy sent a memo to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, asking Johnson to look into the status of America's space program, and into programs that could offer NASA the opportunity to catch up.
At the time of Kennedy's proposal, only one American had flown in space — less than a month earlier — and NASA had not yet sent an astronaut into orbit.
* Curiosity rover-Rover sent to mars by NASA in 2012
In an internal e-mail apparently sent August 18, 2008 to NASA managers and leaked to the press, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stated his belief that the Bush administration had made no viable plan for U. S. crews to participate in the International Space Station beyond 2011, and that Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) were actually seeking its demise.
It also found itself popular among the academic world for research and analysis of audio, and for more clandestine operations, such as speech analysis and manipulation by the intelligence services, submarine sonar and sound analysis by the Navy, flight simulators for Boeing, and even by NASA as the core of the digital camera system on board the Galileo Probe sent to study and photograph Jupiter and its moons.
The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon.
During all this Collins and David Scott were sent by NASA to the Paris Air Show in May 1967.
This one takes place in a futuristic world where a disfigured hermit teenage boy who is sent on a NASA rocket to a planet where the inhabitants look like him.
In any case, NASA sent an unmanned Surveyor to analyze the conditions on the surface of the Moon.
NASA announced on January 27, 2005, that a first sample piece of an aluminum wafer was sent to scientists at Washington University in St. Louis for analysis.
At the time, Canada only possessed upper atmospheric launch capabilities, and therefore Alouette 1 was sent aloft by the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) from Vandenberg AFB in California.
There have also been a number of American-born Chinese astronauts sent into space by NASA.
The Saturn 5 Trilogy tells the story of a fictional NASA " Saturn 5 Mission ," where the crew of the spacecraft " Gloria " is sent to map the rings of Saturn.
At the same time the astronaut crew explores the planet, another Earth Return Vehicle is sent to Mars, allowing NASA an " insurance policy " in the event the first Earth Return Vehicle is unable to perform its task.
During his first administration at NASA, Fletcher was responsible for beginning the Space Shuttle effort, as well as the Viking program that sent landers to Mars.
The film, about a group of tough oil drillers who are sent by NASA to deflect an asteroid away from a collision course with Earth, starred Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler.
In 1998, NASA sent the Oyster toadfish into space to investigate the effects of microgravity on the development of otolithic organs.
In 1969, Shazar sent one of 73 Apollo 11 Goodwill Messages to NASA for the historic first lunar landing.
Sibrel displayed footage which he claimed was accidentally sent to him from NASA, which, according to Sibrel, was evidence that the Apollo 11 astronauts were staging shots of the Earth to make it appear that the spacecraft was en route to the moon when Sibrel believes it was still in low Earth orbit.
The moon rocket Friede was submerged in water before launch, which NASA did not do when it sent actual rockets to the moon, but large rockets are launched over water to prevent damage to the spacecraft from the sound generated by liftoff.
However, even though at launch Kepler had the highest data rate of any NASA mission, the 30 minute sums of all 95 million pixels constitute more data than can be stored and sent back to Earth.
In 1977, a recording of " Flowing Water " ( Liu Shui, as performed by Guan Pinghu, one of the best qin players of the 20th century ) was chosen to be included in the Voyager Golden Record, a gold-plated LP recording containing music from around the world, which was sent into outer space by NASA on the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecrafts.

NASA and scientist
Tamara Elizabeth " Tammy " Jernigan, Ph. D. ( born May 7, 1959, in Chattanooga, Tennessee ) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions.
In 1991, Antonio Medina, a MIT graduate and NASA scientist, designed a virtual reality system to " drive " Mars rovers from Earth in apparent real time despite the substantial delay of Mars-Earth-Mars signals.
* June 23 – NASA scientist James Hansen testifies to the Senate that man-made global warming had begun.
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker ( NEAR Shoemaker ), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.
This was a theory put forward by the former NASA scientist Addison Bain, and later tested in small scale by the scientific reality-TV show MythBusters with semi-inconclusive results ( it was proven not to be the fault of the thermite reaction alone, but instead conjectured to be a combination of that and the burning of hydrogen gas that filled the body of the Hindenburg ).
According to a theory by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Zdeněk Sekanina, the latest impactor to actually make contact with the Sun was the " supercomet " Howard-Koomen-Michels on August 30, 1979.
In 2011, David Morrison, a senior scientist at NASA known for his work in risk assessment of near Earth objects, has written that confidence in the existence of an object like Nemesis has drastically diminished, since it is expected it should have been detected in infrared sky surveys before now.
* Gary L. Bennett, former NASA scientist and engineer and science fiction writer.
* Gregory T. Linteris ( born 1957 ), scientist who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1997.
Perhaps the most prominent signatory to the declaration was Dr. Robert E. Stevenson, a former research scientist for NASA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
He worked for 14 years as a computer scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, but since 1998 has been at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
" Currently, Parente's company Tecbio is working with Boeing and NASA to certify bioquerosene ( bio-kerosene ), another product produced and patented by the Brazilian scientist.
The American effort to bring home German rocket technology in Operation Paperclip, and the bringing of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun ( who would later sit at the head of a NASA center ) stand out in particular.
From left to right: Governor Wallace, NASA Administrator James E. Webb and scientist Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
The major proponents of the lunar origin of tektites include NASA scientist John A. O ' Keefe, NASA aerodynamicist Dean R. Chapman, meteorite and tektite collector Darryl Futrell, and long-time tektite researcher Hal Povenmire.
* Charles Speziale ( class of 1970 ), scientist at NASA Langley Research Center and professor at Boston University.
Hunt was a NASA scientist who became trapped in suspended animation in 1979, only to awaken 154 years later.
Its team includes the world leading venture capitalist John Doerr ; Sun Microsystem's co-founder Bill Joy ; NASA rocket scientist K. R. Sridhar ; former US Vice President Al Gore ; and former US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
He was publicly critical of the decision by NASA to send a scientist — Schmitt — to the Moon, a decision that meant that original lunar module pilot, Joe Engle, never got to walk on the Moon.
In 1980 he joined the Earth and Space Sciences Division of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) as a scientist doing planetary research, and from 1982 through 1985 he was a flight controller responsible for Shuttle payload operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Medved was born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was raised in San Diego, California, where his scientist father, David Medved, worked for the defense contractor Convair and later for NASA.
The commercial success of these films garnered him the tag of " the King of Romance ", Khan subsequently earned wide critical appreciation for his portrayal of a NASA scientist in Swades ( 2004 ), a hockey coach in Chak De!
Also featuring Gayatri Joshi, Swades narrated the story of a NASA scientist who returns to India to get in touch with his roots.

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