Because of its early loss, Challenger was the only space shuttle that never wore the NASA " meatball " logo, and also was never modified with the MEDS " glass cockpit ".

Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour all, until 1998, bore markings consisting of the letters " USA " afore an American flag on the left wing, and the pre-1998 NASA " worm " logo afore the respective orbiter's name on the right wing.

) From its last refit to its destruction, Columbia bore markings identical to those of its operational sister orbiters — the NASA " meatball " logo on the left wing and the American flag afore the orbiter's name on the right ; only Columbia's distinctive wing " chines " remained.

NASA also has an oblique chevron in its " meatball " logo.

Although NASA had been formed in 1958, a US Air Force logo appears on the ship.

The American flag painted on the building was the largest in the world when added in 1976 as part of United States Bicentennial celebrations, along with the star logo of the anniversary, later replaced by the NASA insignia in 1998.

NASA painted the logo on the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in 1976 but painted the NASA emblem over it in 1998 for the agency's 40th anniversary.

In 1992, Goldin brought back the traditional NASA blue " meatball " logo.

It had been replaced in 1975 by the NASA red " worm " logo.

The two red portions of the NASA logo on the left of the insignia symbolize the flight's numerical designation in the Space Transportation System's mission sequence.

This general permission does not include the NASA insignia logo ( the blue " meatball " insignia ), the NASA logotype ( the red " worm " logo ) and the NASA seal.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) logo has three main official designs, although the one with stylized red curved text ( the " worm ") has been retired from official use since 1992.

After a NASA Lewis Research Center illustrator's design was chosen for the new agency's official seal, the head of Lewis ' Research Reports Division, James Modarelli, was asked by the executive secretary of NASA to design a logo that could be used for less formal purposes.

In the NASA insignia design, the sphere represents a planet, the stars represent space, the red chevron, in the alternate shape of the constellation Andromeda, is a wing representing aeronautics ( the latest design in hypersonic wings at the time the logo was developed ).

In 1974, as part of the Federal Graphics Improvement Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, NASA hired Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn to design a more modern logo.

Like most images produced by the United States Government, the " meatball " insignia, the " worm " logo and the NASA seal are in the public domain.

" 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.

With the Discovery launch moving to November, Endeavour mission " cannot fly as planned, so the next available launch window is in February 2011 ," NASA said, adding that the launch dates are subject to change.

Other groups predict dates matching officially predicted launch dates ; the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute ( formerly the Michelson Science Center ) at the California Institute of Technology also sets the date at 2015.

The concept for a bipod dates back to pre-20th century times, and is still used today by agencies such as NASA.

The MV Freedom Star and MV Liberty Star, ships used by NASA to tow space shuttle solid rocket boosters back to Kennedy Space Center, are propelled only by water jets to protect the endangered manatee population that inhabits regions of the Banana River where the ships are based.

* Manned Maneuvering Unit, a NASA rocket pack that snaps onto the back of a spacesuit

* 1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 ( the probe falls back to Earth and burns up ).

A NASA research group found a small number of Streptococcus mitis bacteria living inside the camera of the Surveyor 3 spacecraft when it was brought back to Earth by Apollo 12.

* August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( SCA ).

* November 10 – November 12 – Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within 77, 000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.

In 2002 the museum went into bankruptcy and was taken over by a NASA contractor, whereupon the family asked for everything back.

Glenn states in his memoir that he had no idea that NASA was willing to send him back into space when NASA announced the decision.

Three days prior to NASA's announcement, various radio stations were reporting that NASA had decided to send Glenn back into space.

The Smithsonian has also been promised the International Cometary Explorer, which is currently in a solar orbit that occasionally brings it back to Earth, should NASA attempt to recover it.

NASA deemed the mission a complete success, because it proved the Saturn V worked, an important step towards achieving the Apollo program's primary objective: landing astronauts on the Moon, and bringing them back safely before the end of the decade.

After nearly nine months of attempts to get the rover back on track, including using test rovers on Earth, NASA announced on January 26, 2010 that Spirit was being retasked as a stationary science platform.

However, creators of the show felt the series wasn't reminiscent of the original enough and brought Zin back in the second season episode " Nemesis ," where Zin reveals himself as alive to Quest and holds a NASA station launching a new satellite hostage.

James " Jim " Arthur Lovell, Jr., ( born March 25, 1928 ) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control.

Some of the " props " were in fact original NASA equipment used during the Apollo 11 landing, left behind in Australia as they were too heavy to ship back.

The Rogers Commission offered nine recommendations on improving safety in the space shuttle program, and NASA was directed by President Reagan to report back within thirty days as to how it planned to implement those recommendations.

Pillinger's first job was for NASA, analysing the lunar samples brought back by Apollo 11 ; but he is best known for being the principal investigator for the failed Beagle 2 Mars lander project, part of European Space Agency's ( ESA ) 2003 Mars Express mission.

Realizing that they have no other means of leaving the town, Dalton heads back to the USGS makeshift operations center and picks up a tracking device from NASA that had been showcased in an earlier segment and notices that computers are signaling that the mountain is about to blow completely.

Using the NASA rover " Spirit " as the point of origin for the transmission, the MRO acted as a relay for transmitting data back to Earth.

Mr. Bill agrees, and the camera pulls back to reveal that Mr. Bill is lashed to the exterior of a NASA Space Shuttle.

NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin invited Horowitz back to NASA as an associate administrator so he could lead the effort to develop this hardware.

After Challenger < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s destruction, NASA recycled the mission numbering system back to STS-26, which was the 26th shuttle mission and the first to fly after the disaster.

NASA managers opted to roll back the vehicle to the VAB on 7 March, and then to OPF for repair.