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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research.NASA was established in 1958, succeeding the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The new agency was to have a distinctly civilian orientation, encouraging peaceful applications in space science. Since its establishment, most US space exploration efforts have been led by NASA, including the Apollo Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station, and later the Space Shuttle. NASA is supporting the International Space Station and is overseeing the development of the Orion spacecraft, the Space Launch System, and Commercial Crew vehicles. The agency is also responsible for the Launch Services Program, which provides oversight of launch operations and countdown management for uncrewed NASA launches.
NASA's science is focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing System; advancing heliophysics through the efforts of the Science Mission Directorate's Heliophysics Research Program; exploring bodies throughout the Solar System with advanced robotic spacecraft such as New Horizons; and researching astrophysics topics, such as the Big Bang, through the Great Observatories and associated programs.

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  1. Ivan Seeking

    NASA How Do Distant Stars Cause Solar Flares?

    http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/12sep_magnetars.htm?list955064
  2. Zantra

    NASA Nasa to replicate results by Podkletnov

    Some more interesting information I came across: This is an attempt by Nasa to replicate results by Podkletnov http://members.tripod.com/richard_crandall/id53.htm This is a theory on gravimetrics. He claims in here that you need a PHD in physics to fully understand it, but see what you...
  3. Ivan Seeking

    NASA NASA promises to break culture of silence: CNN

    "JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas (AP) -- The space shuttle engineers who desperately wanted zoom-in satellite pictures of the damaged Columbia in orbit never spoke up at key meetings and never told the manager in charge of the flight. They were too uncomfortable. Too afraid. "...
  4. J

    NASA NASA scientists discover the beginning of time. (Their description)

    http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/1996/01/image/a Now this should make for an entertaining conversation on a rainy weekend. What is the plausibility that NASA has really found the beginning of time? That photograph is of the area of space at the extreme range of the HST. So what is...
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