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In 1958, a civilian, not military, agency was established to promote peaceful scientific research, and it began operating on October 1, 1958.
Is the former US President Dwight Eisenhower.
An agency known as an agency.
Leading space for other agencies around the world after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Do you know who this agency is? Yes, exactly, it's NASA's space agency
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Who Works for NASA
What Has NASA Done
NASA’s robotic space probes have visited every planet in the solar system and several other celestial bodies. Telescopes have allowed scientists to look at the far reaches of space. Satellites have revealed a wealth of data about Earth, resulting in valuable information such as a better understanding of weather patterns.
How does NASA work
The United States had already begun launching satellites shortly before the creation of NASA. On January 1, 1958, the Juno 1 missile was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and rose 200 miles (321 km) into the sky before launching a satellite called Explorer 1 [source: NASA ]. But the Explorer wasn't just entering orbit - the satellite has produced important scientific knowledge as well, by documenting the presence of the Van Allen radiation belt surrounding the Earth [source: Garber and Laune's ].
In the decades that followed, Explorer was followed by many other unmanned missions. NASA has sent several robotic space probes to various places in the solar system . Early probes (Ranger, Lunar Orbiter, Pioneer, and Surveyor) were sent to the moon to obtain the information needed for the Apollo Landing on the moon. NASA later returned to the moon with the Clementine (1992) and Lunar Prospector (1998) probes for further exploration.
NASA has sent flights, orbital and landings to explore the inner and outer planets. They include:
Mariner: the flight of Mercury, Venus ، and Mars
Major: Flying from the Moon (early missions), Jupiter (Pioneer 10), Venus (Pioneer Venus missions)
Voyager: flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
Magellan: Venus and Radar Mapping
Viking: the descent of Mars
Galileo: Jupiter is in orbit
Hubble Space Telescope: An orbital observatory that helped scientists look at the early universe and estimate its age more accurately.
Cassini: Saturn spacecraft with Huygens' lander on Saturn's moon, Titan
Deep Space 1: A flying asteroid
Stardust: Cometand Sample Return
Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity: Mars Landers
Orbiting Mars: Mars
Messenger: Mercury's orbit
Dawn: The first probe to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter [source: JPL ].
WISE / NEOWISE: It scanned the entire celestial sky in infrared light 1.5 times, and captured more than 2.7 million images of objects in space, from comets to galaxies [source: NASA ]
Juno: An orbiter around Jupiter that revealed the turbulent nature of the largest planet in the solar system [source: NASA ].
Curiosity and Opportunity: Two Rovers Exploring the Surface of Mars [Source: Corinne ].
New Horizons: Color images of the dwarf planet carried Pluto and Charon [Source: NASA ].
Insight: Launched in May 2018, this probe will investigate the dynamics of Martian tectonic activity [Source: NASA ].
NASA Earth Science
NASA Earth Science Division Response to COVID-19
NASA Earth Science Division Response to COVID-19 The Earth Science Division collects global Earth-observing satellite data and has planned for continuity of observations, while prioritizing the health, welfare and safety of our employees and contractors during the COVID-19 pandemic. While NASA’s airborne and shipborne field campaigns have been largely postponed, our satellites and semi-autonomous ground sensors continue to operate with most personnel supporting missions remotely to keep onsite staff at a minimum. NASA continues to capture the ongoing changes in Earth’s systems, including new environmental signals in response to human behavior due to COVID-19
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NASA
NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA is a U.S. government agency that is responsible for science and technology related to air and space. The Space Age started in 1957 with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik. NASA opened for business on Oct. 1, 1958. The agency was created to oversee U.S. space exploration and aeronautics research. The administrator is in charge of NASA. The NASA administrator is nominated by the president and confirmed by a vote in the Senate
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NASA Earth Science
NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) missions help us to understand our planet’s interconnected systems, from a global scale down to minute processes. Working in concert with a satellite network of international partners, ESD can measure precipitation around the world, and it can employ its own constellation of small satellites to look into the eye of a hurricane. ESD technology can track dust storms across continents and mosquito habitats across cities.
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Read MoreEarth Science: NASA’s Mission to Our Home Planet
By Edward S. Goldstein and Tabatha Thompson "We shall never cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." – T.S. Eliot In 1954 the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City asked visionary British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke to organize a symposium on the coming age of spaceflight. Clarke invited Dr. Harry Wexler, chief of research at the U.S. Weather Bureau, to present a paper on the meteorological uses of satellites. In The Promise of Space (1968) Clarke writes that he was “somewhat taken aback when he [Wexler] replied that [satellites] would be of very little value. After brooding for awhile I wrote again, challenging him to demonstrate this – if only to stop us space cadets from wasting the valuable time of the meteorological authorities. To his credit, Dr. Wexler accepted the challenge; by the time he had written his paper, he had convinced himself completely. Afterward, he became the United States’ chief protagonist for this new research instrument and played a major role in the development of meteorological satellites until his death in 1962. Perhaps I should add that Dr. Wexler’s attitude was precisely correct and demonstrates all the stages (skepticism, inquiry, enthusiasm) a scientist should pass through when confronted with some novel and (in this case literally) far-out idea.”
Learning About Earth From Space
60 Years and Counting
While the space program unravels mysteries of the universe, it also reveals valuable insights about Earth. The perspective available from NASA satellites provides a scientific understanding of Earth's interconnected systems and the planet’s response to natural and human-induced changes. The first two decades of the Space Age focused on developing the capabilities of Earth-observing satellites. In the 1980s, NASA began a comprehensive study of our planet as an integrated system. Long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans are improving scientists’ ability to predict climate, weather, and natural hazards. As a research and development organization, NASA has been sharing its new technologies and Earth application programs with other agencies and the private sector.
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NASA Knows: History
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? What Was Project MercuryThis project launched America's first astronauts into space.
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Administrator Jim Bridgestone
NASA Administrator
NASA Administrator Jim Bridgestone, Official Portrait, Wednesday, July 24, 2019, NASA Headquarters in Washington. Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls James Frederick “Jim” Bridgestone was nominated by President Donald Trump, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and sworn in as NASA’s 13th administrator on April 23, 2018. Bridgestone was elected in 2012 to represent Oklahoma’s First Congressional District. In Congress he served on the Armed Services Committee and the Science, Space and Technology Committee. Bridgestone's career in federal service began in the U.S. Navy, flying the E-2C Hawkeye off the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. He flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and accrued most of his 1,900 flight hours and 333 carrier-arrested landings.
Deputy Administrator Jim Mortared
Deputy Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
James W. Morhard was nominated by President Trump and confirmed to be NASA’s 14th Deputy Administrator. He was sworn in on October 17th, 2018.
