NACA. See National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
Naming contests, 148
NASA. See National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 6
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), 18-19
National Aeronautics and Space Act, 17-18
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA)
Apollo program, 21-24, 24t
application satellites, 12-13
Arecibo Observatory, 95
art program, 147
on the benefits of space program, 144-145
biological and physical research workers, 31, 33f
budget, 18f, 35-36, 35f, 36f, 37f
Cassini mission, 136-137, 136f
casualties, 11, 14-15
Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXRO), 99-100, 101f, 101t
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO), 98-99, 98f
contests, 148
criticism of, 17
Discovery program, 27, 92-93, 93f
Earth and Sun orbiters, 27
education programs, 147
Educator Astronaut program, 31-32
Explorer program, 92, 92f
failed Mars missions, 117, 118
formation of, 41-42
founding, 7, 17-19
Freedom space station, 78
Galileo mission, 135-136, 135f
Gemini program, 20, 21t
Global Surveyor, Mars, 119
ham radio, 146-147
Hubble Space Telescope, 68, 96f, 97-98, 97t, 143
International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) program, 27, 93-94
international space science partnerships, 27
interplanetary explorers, 12, 26-27
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), 102
Keck Observatory, 95-96
Mariner mission, 117-118
Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs), 123-128, 123f, 124f, 125f, 126f, 127f
Mercury project, 19-20, 20t
military space programs, 41-42
military vs. non-military purposes, 19
moon landing hoax theory, 151-152, 252t
moon program flight techniques, 21
moon race begins, 7-8, 19
naming contests, 1418
Odyssey, 121, 122f
Orbital Astronomical Observatory, 96
organization and facilities, 27-30, 28f
Pathfinder mission, 119-120, 120f
Pioneer mission, 133
private citizen astronauts, 31-32
public opinion on performance of, 148-149, 148f, 149(f9.12)
public relations, 145-148
Ranger probes, 20-21
robotic space explorers, 12, 26-27, 50-51
science programs, 27
shuttle astronauts, 31-34, 34t
Skylab, 25
Sojourner rover, 120, 1221f
solar missions, 104, 107-110, 108t, 109f, 110f, 111f, 112f
space observatories, 27
space stations, 10-11, 25
Spitzer Space Telescope, 100-102, 100f
Surveyor probes, 21
television, 145, 146
tourism, 148
Viking mission, 118-119
Voyager Interstellar Mission, 134-135
Voyager mission, 133-135, 134f
web site, 145-146, 146f
workforce, 30-31, 30(f2.5), 31f, 32f, 33f
See also International Space Station (ISS); Space shuttle program
National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), 49
National Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), 3, 4
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 105, 106t-107t, 107
National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), 29
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), 40
Navigational systems, 13, 13f
Navy, U.S.
manned spaceflight program, 41
rocket research, 40
Vanguard satellite, 40-41
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), 93
NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous), 93
Neptune, 131-132
Newton, Isaac, 2
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), 105, 106t-107t, 107
Noordung, Hermann, 71
Nozomi spacecraft, 49
NRL (Naval Research Laboratory), 40
NSSDC (National Space Science Data Center), 29
Nuclear weapons, 9-10
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