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National Aeronautics and Space Administration

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration , artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial ), rocketry, and space telescopes (see Hubble Space Telescope ) and observatories. It is also responsible for international cooperation in space matters. NASA came into existence on Oct. 1, 1958, superseding the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), an agency that had been oriented primarily toward laboratory research. While the NACA budget never went higher than $5 million and its staff never exceeded 500, the NASA annual budget reached $14.2 billion in 1995, and its staff reached a maximum size of 34,000 in 1966 (21,000 in 1995), with some 400,000 contract employees working directly on agency programs. The creation of NASA was spurred by American unpreparedness at the time the Soviet Union launched (Oct. 4, 1957) the first artificial satellite ( Sputnik 1 ). …
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From Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained
The organization which directs the US space programme. NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has long been associated with ufo s. A number of its space missions have reported sightings – these include video footage of unusual white lights darting across the earth’s upper…
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US national aeronautics and space agency, with overarching responsibility for American civilian aerospace exploration and associated scientific and technological research. NASA was created in 1958, following the USSR's success with SPUTNIK , and inherited the work of the National Advisory Committee…
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From The Great American History Fact-Finder
( 1958 ), a federal agency established by Congress to supervise U.S. space flights and activities within and beyond the earth's atmosphere. The agency is involved in the research, building, and testing of spacecraft for peaceful purposes. Its accomplishments include the launching of hundreds of…
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(NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration , artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial ), rocketry, and space telescopes (see Hubble Space Telescope ) and observatories. …
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) emerged in 1958 at the height of the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. In the field of space exploration, the Soviets scored a dramatic coup on 4 October 1957, when they launched Sputnik 1 , the first artificial…
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From Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), an executive agency of the U.S. government, was formed in 1958 to develop the U.S. space program. Its creation was prompted by the Soviet Union's successful launch of the world's first orbital satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957, which…
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From Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events Full text Article SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Guy Bluford
Three black women pioneers—Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan—became part of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics's (NACA; the precursor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]) human “computers,” known as the “West Computers,” and were the first black…
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From Encyclopedia of the American Presidency
On October 4, 1957, in the midst of the cold war, the Soviet Union shocked the West with the launching of Sputnik, the world's first satellite. The fear that the United States was losing the "space race" galvanized America behind the space program. Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space…
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a large, automated space observatory. A number of spaceflight visionaries had envisaged the possibilities of telescopes in space even before World War II. Serious planning, however, began for what would become the HST in the late 1960s. The project received strong…
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