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NASA TV – Programming

NASA TV airs a variety of regularly scheduled, pre-recorded educational and public relations programming 24 hours a day on its various channels. Programs include “NASA Gallery”, which features photographs and video from NASA’s history; “Video File”, which broadcasts b-roll footage for news and media outlets; “Education File”, which provides special programming for schools; “This Week [...]

Linda A. Morabito – Honors

Morabito has been awarded the following honors during her career: *NASA Group Achievement Award for Voyager Flight Operations, Navigation Team *NASA Group Achievement Award for Voyager Mission Operations System Design, Ground Data Systems Development *NASA Group Achievement Award for Voyager Mission Design, Ephemeris Development *Individual Certificate of Appreciation from NASA for contributing substantially to the [...]

Space probe – Introduction

space probe is a scientific space exploration mission in which a robotic spacecraft leaves the gravity well of Earth and approaches the Moon or enters interplanetary or interstellar space (see list of probes by operational status for a list of active probes); The space agencies of the USSR (now Russia and Ukraine), the United States, [...]

Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales – Missions

Unlike NASA in the United States, Onera is not an agency for space science and exploration. However, Onera carries out a wide range of research for space agencies, both CNES in France and the European Space Agency (ESA), as well as for the French defense procurement agency, DGA (Délégation générale pour l’armement). Onera also independently [...]

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope – Introduction

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

NASA Paresev – Introduction

Paresev (Paraglider Research Vehicle) was an experimental NASA glider aircraft based upon the kite-parachute studies by NASA engineer Francis Rogallo. The tests performed between 1961 and 1965 were designed to study the ability of the Rogallo wing, also called ”Parawing”, to descend a payload such as the Gemini space capsule safely from high altitude to [...]

Astronaut – Terminology

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Astronaut, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Space and Missile Systems Center – Units

Lockheed Martin Space Systems

Space Superiority Systems Wing The Space Superiority Systems Wing equips US forces with offensive and defensive counterspace and space situation awareness systems to gain, maintain, and exploit space superiority. It directs the planning, development, testing, deployment, and sustainment of a complex and dynamic portfolio of space-superiority capabilities of the highest national priority. “The visible sensor [...]

John C. Mather – Honors and awards

National Space Science And Technology Center

*1964-68 Swarthmore College Open Scholarship (honorary) *1967 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, 30th place nationwide *1968-70 NSF Fellowship and honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellowship *1970-74 Fellow, Hertz Foundation *1974-76 Postdoctoral Fellow, NRC *1990 NASA GSFC John C. Lindsay Memorial Award *1991 Rotary National Space Achievement Award *1991 National Air and Space Museum Trophy *1992 Aviation Week [...]

NASA M2-F1 – Introduction

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NASA M2-F1 was a lightweight, unpowered prototype aircraft, developed to flight test the wingless lifting body concept. It looked like a “flying bathtub,” and was designated the M2-F1, the “M” referring to “manned” and “F” referring to “flight” version. In 1962, NASA Dryden management approved a program to build a lightweight, unpowered lifting body prototype. [...]

Stephan’s Quintet – Molecular hydrogen emission

Institute Of Space Technology

Perhaps even more unexpected is the discovery of very powerful molecular hydrogen signals from the shock wave, seen by the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope which detects infrared radiation. The molecular hydrogen emission, which is seen through infrared spectral analysis using the Spitzer Space Telescope is one of the most turbulent formations of molecular hydrogen ever [...]

NASA insignia – History

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The NASA logo dates back to 1959, when the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) metamorphosed into an agency that would advance both astronautics and aeronautics: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 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, [...]









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