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Parent topics
- List of aerospace engineering topics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Space exploration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Space race [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Staff
Executive and political
- Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident [r]: Add brief definition or description
Scientific
Flight
Mercury group
- Alan Shepherd [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gus Grissom [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Glenn [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scott Carpenter [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deke Slayton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Walter M. Schirra, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
Gemini group
- Edwin White [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neil Armstrong [r]: Astronaut who joined NASA for Project Gemini, and first man to step foot on the Moon, Apollo 11, July 1969; Vice Chairman, Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident then Chairman of the Board of Computing Technologies for Aviation, Inc. Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati from 1971-1980; appointed to the National Commission on Space in 1985. [e]
- Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin [r]: Add brief definition or description
Later astronauts
- Sally Ride [r]: Astronaut and the first American woman in space; member, Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident [e]
Lost on Challenger
- Francis "Dick" Scobee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Michael Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Judith Resnik [r]: Add brief definition or description Mission Specialist
- Ellison Onizuka [r]: Add brief definition or description Mission Specialist
- Ronald McNair [r]: Add brief definition or description Mission Specialist
- Gregory Jarvis [r]: Add brief definition or description Payload Specialist
- Christa McAuliffe [r]: Add brief definition or description Spaceflight Participant (Teacher in Space Program)
Facilities
- Ames Research Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dryden Flight Research Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Glenn Research Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Goddard Space Flight Center [r]: Located in the Washington, DC suburb of Greenbelt, Maryland, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility primarily concerned with unmanned space science satellites; it is also the operations center for NASA's network, and the primary repository for stored telemetry [e]
- Goddard Space Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Johnson Space Center [r]: Located in Houston, Texas, the primary National Aeronautics and Space Administration concerned with manned spaceflight; astronauts are based here, and, after the immediate launch, its operations center takes over communications, command and control with manned flights [e]
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory [r]: Operated under contract by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility concerned with the design and operation of deep space missions beyond Earth orbit [e]
- Kennedy Space Center [r]: On the Florida coast at Cape Canaveral, the primary launch site for U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and military satellites whose orbits benefit from an eastern starting point (i.e., principally those not in polar or Moliyna orbit; supported by Patrick Air Force Base [e]
- Marshall Space Flight Center [r]: NASA engineering facility, located at Redstone Arsenal, specializing in development of space propulsion and transportation systems, but also research payloads [e]
- Langley Research Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stennis Space Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wallops Flight Facility [r]: Add brief definition or description
- White Sands Test Facility [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vandenberg Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
Programs
- Project Mercury [r]: The United States' first manned spaceflight program. [e]
- Project Gemini [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Project Apollo [r]: A human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA during the years 1961–1975 with the goal of conducting manned moon landing missions. [e]
- Project Constellation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Space Station [r]: A space station currently in earth orbit assembled collaboratively by the space agencies of many nations. [e]
- National Institute of Aerospace [r]: A non-profit research and graduate education institute headquartered in Hampton, Virginia, near NASA's Langley Research Center. [e]
- NewSpace [r]: Umbrella terms for a movement and philosophy often affiliated with, but not synonymous with, the private spaceflight industry. [e]
- Space Shuttle program [r]: The current US manned space program which began with its first flight, STS-1, on April 12, 1981; also known as the Space Transportation System. [e]
- KC-135 Reduced Gravity Aircraft [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vision for Space Exploration [r]: Add brief definition or description
Launch vehicles
- Atlas (space launch vehicle) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UGM-27 Titan II [r]: A second-generation U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile able to lift unusually large warheads, and used as a space launch vehicle after military retirement. As an ICBM, it carried the largest warhead of any U.S. missile [e]
- Titan IV (space launch vehicle) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Delta (space launch vehicle) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Saturn (space launch vehicle) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Related topics
Other space agencies
- Brazilian Space Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description (AEB)
- Canadian Space Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description (CSA)
- CNES (Centre National d'Études Spatiales) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- China National Space Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales [r]: Add brief definition or description (CONAE)
- Defense Atomic Support Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description (DASA) (abolished U.S. agency; see Starfish Prime)
- COSPAS-SARSAT [r]: Worldwide system of multinational satellites in geosynchronous or low earth orbits, receiving stations, and search and rescue mission control systems that detect the emergency messages from emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRB) [e]
- European Space Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description (ESA)
- German Space Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description (DLR)
- Israeli Space Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description (ISA)
- Italian Space Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description (ASI)
- Korea Aerospace Research Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description (KARI)
- National Reconnaissance Office [r]: An agency of the United States intelligence community, which designs, procures, launches, and operates intelligence satellites and certain aircraft/UAV platforms. It does not analyze their output. [e]
- Orbital Sciences Corporation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- SUPARCO (Pakistani Space Agency) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Indian Space Research Organisation [r]: Add brief definition or description (ISRO)
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description (JAXA)
- National Space Agency of Ukraine [r]: Add brief definition or description (NASU)
- Russian Federal Space Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description(Roskosmos)
Historical
- V-2 [r]: World's first operational ballistic missile, developed by Nazi Germany: (Vergeltungswaffe 2). [e]
- Operation Paperclip [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Soviet space program [r]: Add brief definition or description (historical)
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