What Is NASA?
Full form of NASA is National Aeronautics and Space Administration.NASA headquarters is in Washington, D.C. NASA is a U.S. government agency for science and technology research.
IT was opened for for business on Oct. 1, 1958.
NASA was created to oversee space exploration and aeronautics research.. The agency is also responsible for the Launch Services Program which provides oversight of launch operations and countdown management for uncrewed NASA launches.
Leadership
The first leader of NASA is Dr. T. Keith Glennan appointed by Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The second leader was James E. Webb (1961–1968), appointed by President John F. Kennedy, was a Democrat who first publicly served under President Harry S. Truman. In order to put a decision to the Apollo program to achieve Kennedy's Moon landing goal in the end of the 1960s, Webb directed major management restructuring and facility expansion, establishing the Houston Manned Spacecraft (Johnson) Center and the Florida Launch Operations (Kennedy) Center. Capitalizing on Kennedy's legacy, President Lyndon Johnson kept continuity with the Apollo program by keeping Webb on when he succeeded Kennedy in November 1963. But Webb resigned in October 1968 before Apollo achieved its goal, and Republican President Richard M. Nixon replaced Webb with Republican Thomas O. Paine.
James Fletcher was responsible for early planning of the Space Shuttle program during his first term as administrator under President Nixon. He was appointed for a second term as administrator from May 1986 through April 1989 by President Ronald Reagan to help the agency recover from the Space Shuttle challenger disaster.
Former astronaut Charles Bolden served as NASA's twelfth administrator from July 2009 to January 20, 2017. Bolden is one of three former astronauts who became NASA administrators, along with Richard H. Truly (served 1989–1992) and Frederick D. GregoryNASA missions.
1. Apollo
The duration of apollo mission is 1961–1972. The purpose of this mission is to sent human on moon for research and archive a new goal before any other country. The cost of this mission is $25.6 billion in 1973 and today cost of this mission is $153 billion. Apollo was launched on october 27, 1961. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command and service module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.
And other mission are;
2. Voyager
3. Pioneer
4. Hubble
5. Cassini-Huygens
6. WMAP
7. Viking
8. Chandra
9. Spitzer
10. Spirit & Opportunity.
Climate and research
NASA also researches on climate change. NASA contracted a third party to study the probability of using Free Space Optics (FSO) to communicate with Optical (laser) Stations on the Ground (OGS) called laser-com RF networks for satellite communications.
Its Budget
NASA's share of the budget gone at approximately 4.41% in 1966 on apollo mission, then rapidly declined to approximately 1% in 1975. In a March 2012 hearing of the United States Senate Science Committee, science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson testified that "Right now, NASA's annual budget is half a penny on your tax dollar. For twice that—a penny on a dollar—we can transform the country from a sullen, dispirited nation, weary of economic struggle, to one where it has reclaimed its 20th century birthright to dream of tomorrow." In year 2015 NASA received $18.01 billion from Congress.
in year 2016 NASA received $19.3 billion.
In March,2017 President Donald Trump signed the NASA Transition Authorization Act which they set the 2017 budget at around $19.5 billion.
Examples of some proposed:
- Exploration: $4.79 billion
- Planetary science: $2.23 billion
- Earth science: $1.92 billion
- Aeronautics: $0.685 billion
Planned spacecraft of NASA are
- Orion spacecraft
- Mars 2020 design art
- Space launch system concept art
- Lunar gateway concept art
- James Webb space telescope concept art.
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