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independent U.S. governmental agency established in 1958 for the research and development of vehicles and activities for the exploration of space within and outside of Earth's atmosphere.Martin, James Slattin, Jr.
American aeronautical engineer (b. June 21, 1920, Washington, D.C.-d. April 14, 2002, Rising Sun, Md.), was project manager for NASA's Viking 1 and 2 missions, which in 1975 sent the two unmanned ...
Soffen, Gerald Alan
American biologist (b. Feb. 7, 1926, Cleveland, Ohio-d. Nov. 22, 2000, Washington, D.C.), was the chief scientist for the Viking 1 and 2 missions to Mars. After earning a Ph.D. in biology from ...
space station
In 1969, NASA proposed to President Nixon that a reusable space shuttle be developed to serve as the basis for post-Apollo activities in Earth orbit. At that time, still pursuing Braun's vision of a ...
Yamaguchi, Goro
Japanese musician whose mastery of the wooden flute known as the shakuhachi was such that he was named a "living national treasure" in Japan; part of one of his recordings was included in a selection ...
Griffin, Michael
NASA's new administrator, Michael Griffin, who was sworn in on April 14, 2005, overruled the agency's top safety officer and chief engineer and directed that the July 2006 launch of the space shuttle ...
Silverstein, Abe
American aerospace engineer and researcher (b. Sept. 15, 1908, Terre Haute, Ind.-d. June 1, 2001, Fairview Park, Ohio), was an early space researcher who coined the name Apollo for the missions that ...
Physical Sciences
The first test flight of the Falcon 1 launch vehicle, independently developed by SpaceX with funding from entrepreneur Elon Musk, took place March 24 on Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean but ...
Earth and Space Sciences
Space station practice missions dominated space news during 1995 as the United States and Russia prepared to start building an international space station that could cost a total of $100 billion ...
Ranger
any of a series of nine unmanned probes launched from 1961 to 1965 by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Project Ranger represented NASA's earliest attempt at ...
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