X-Nico

36 unusual facts about NASA


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NASA is considering it as a possible target for a manned mission(Exploration Mission 2) using the Orion spacecraft, prior to a projected 2030 push to Mars.

Adrian Morris

Morris was inspired in the 1960s by the NASA programme and the views of distant, barren terrain seen through a spacecraft hatch.

Advanced Crew Escape Suit

The suit is a direct descendant of the U.S. Air Force high-altitude pressure suits worn by the two-man crews of the SR-71 Blackbird, pilots of the U-2 and X-15, and Gemini pilot-astronauts, and the Launch Entry Suits worn by NASA astronauts starting on the STS-26 flight, the first flight after the Challenger disaster.

Applications Technology Satellite

The Applications Technology Satellites were a series of experimental satellites launched by NASA.

Approach and Landing Tests

Upon the orbiter's entry into service, NASA began an extensive program of tests using Enterprise to ensure all of the systems it had put in place for the shuttle project functioned as designed.

Artificial neural membrane

Artificial neural membrane technology development has been funded by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, for application to flapping wing flight.

Big Picture Science

Guests include scientists and researchers from academic, public and private spheres (including NASA), popular science writers, cultural critics and ethicists focused on science.

Brave Saint Saturn

With this in mind, the band used NASA recordings and electronic samples on their first two albums.

Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine

Danny uses a computer that Professor Bulfinch has created for NASA to prepare his homework, despite Professor Bullfinch's warning that Danny is to leave the machine alone.

Fiducial marker

Cameras outfitted with reseau plates produce these reference marks (also called reseau crosses) and are commonly used by NASA.

Frank B. McDonald

From 1982 to 1987, as NASA Chief Scientist, McDonald was a principal adviser to the NASA administrator and other senior officials.

George Wetherill

Wetherill provided leadership in the scientific community by serving on advisory committees for NASA, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Science Foundation.

I-Suit

The suit began as an EVA mobility demonstrator, developed to meet a contract awarded by NASA to ILC in 1997 for an all-soft suit.

Kenneth Weaver

Weaver's career is particularly notable because of his coverage of the NASA space program, from articles such as "Countdown for Space" in May 1961, "And Now to Touch the Moon's Forbidding Face", May 1969, and "Journey to Mars", February 1973.

Mission Specialist

A Mission Specialist (MS) is a position held by certain NASA astronauts during Space Shuttle missions.

NASA RealWorld-InWorld Engineering Design Challenge

NASA RealWorld-InWorld Engineering Design Challenge encourages students in grades 7–12 to explore and to build skills for successful careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM fields) through two phases of project-based learning and team competition.

NASAspaceflight.com

The site was conceived from an idea between Chris Bergin and three NASA and United Space Alliance managers, who wanted to see a news media site cover space flight (specifically Shuttle, VSE and NASA) from an engineering standpoint, concentrating on breaking news and documentation that involved the communication between the engineers and managers and the general public who were interested.

Neutral buoyancy simulation as a training aid

In July 1966 the Gemini Program joined in a NASA Langley Research Center contract to include an evaluation of Gemini EVA tasks.

NASA determined that training for EVA tasks required further development.

Oakland Colegio Campestre

Colegio Oakland (Oakland School) attends the Space School program since 2009 at Space Center Houston, leading Colombian Student participation of NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) educational programs, encouraging young people to gain an interest in physics, engineering, space science and STEM subjects, science, technology, engineering and maths.

Operation Luna

The IRS (Inquisition for Revenue Securement) and NASA (National Astral Spellcraft Administration) also become involved.

Orlan space suit

They have been used for spacewalks (EVAs) in the Russian space program, the successor to the Soviet space program, and by space programs of other countries, including NASA.

Parallel Universes, a Memoir from the Edges of Space and Time

Parallel Universes, A Memoir from the Edges of Space and Time is a non-fiction Christian book and a personal and science memoir written by Linda Morabito Meyer, the NASA discoverer of the volcanic activity on Jupiter's Io.

Patrol Wing

During the mid-1990s, however, two squadrons, VP-9 and VP-47, transferred to the Rainbow Fleet from NAS Moffett Field, Calif., when Moffett Field was disestablished as a USN installation and transferred to NASA and the California Air National Guard as a "Moffett Federal Airfield" via BRAC action.

Plasma receiver

NASA provided recordings of these interplanetary and outer space plasma vibrations to composer Terry Riley and Kronos quartet founder David Harrington, which inspired the composition of "Sun Rings", a multimedia 85-minute piece for string quartet and choir.

Sayonara Technopolis

Aira owns an allotment of land on the Moon, and the single's cover uses NASA-licensed images.

SETI Institute

The SETI Institute’s public outreach efforts include working with teachers and students in promoting science education and the teaching of evolution, working with NASA on exploration missions such as Kepler and SOFIA, and producing a weekly science program: Big Picture Science.

Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue

The device was developed by the Robotics Division (with its contractor staff) of NASA at the Johnson Space Center.

Soyuz-TMA

The spacecraft features several changes to accommodate requirements requested by NASA in order to service the International Space Station, including more latitude in the height and weight of the crew and improved parachute systems.

The Orchestral Tubular Bells

Excerpts from the album were featured in the 1979 NASA film, The Space Movie.

Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award

2008 - Flight Test Safety Database Team: Barton Henwood, NASA/DFRC; Rodrigo Huete, FAA (Ret); John Hed, FAA; Greg Lewis, National Test Pilot School

Verilite Sunbird

Verilite worked together with NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to correct a serious flaw in the design when tests with a radio-controlled model saw the aircraft enter a spin following a stall.

Windows on Earth

In May 2012, NASA selected Windows on Earth as the new tool to help astronauts identify targets for photography from the ISS.

Additional partners include the Challenger Learning Center and NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Wojciech Rostafiński

He was manager of advanced research projects at NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland Ohio, contributed to the theory of aeronautics and applied mathematics, listed in Scientific Citation Index.

World Universities Congress

During the closing panel which was carried out in the presidency of vice-president of International Association of Universities Prof. Pier Ugo Calzolari, distinguished scholars made speeches respectively; Prof. Dr. Ali Akdemir, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Rector; Prof. Ute Stoltenberg, Leuphana University Lueneburg; Prof. Dr. Enver Duran, Rector of Trakya University; Prof. Dr. Hilmi Ibar, Dean of Education Faculty of Trakya University, Dr. Garik Gutman, NASA; Assoc.


Abdus Suttar Khan

Abdus Suttar Khan a Bangladeshi Oxford Scholar and distinguished aerospace researcher for four decades with NASA, Pratt & Whitney, and the power generation company Alstom (Switzerland).

AIRS

Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, a weather and climate instrument flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite

Ares I

President George W. Bush had announced the Vision for Space Exploration in January 2004, and NASA under Sean O'Keefe had solicited plans for a Crew Exploration Vehicle from multiple bidders, with the plan for having two competing teams.

Beta cloth

It was implemented in NASA space suits after the deadly 1967 Apollo 1 launch pad fire, in which the astronauts' nylon suits burned through.

Boundary layer suction

In the 1960s, NASA experimented with this concept with the Northrop X-21, a converted Douglas WB-66D.

Chris Gainor

Many of these engineers went on to hold top positions in NASA, including Jim Chamberlin, John Hodge, Owen Maynard, and Tecwyn Roberts.

Chris-Craft

For the NASA flight director, see Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.

Christopher Scolese

Scolese was chosen to succeed Rex Geveden as NASA Associate Administrator at the end of July 2007.

Computer stereo vision

Scientific applications for digital stereo vision include the extraction of information from aerial surveys, for calculation of contour maps or even geometry extraction for 3D building mapping, or calculation of 3D heliographical information such as obtained by the NASA STEREO project.

Condredge Holloway

Dorothy was hired to work at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville in 1962, becoming the first African American employee of NASA.

Cygnus Orb-D1

The flight was carried out by Orbital Sciences under contract to NASA as Cygnus' demonstration mission in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.

David Clark Company

It developed partial pressure suits for NASA's Bell X-1 rocket-powered research aircraft in the 1940s, and full pressure suits for the D558-2 and North American X-15 research aircraft in the 1950s.

Decadal Planning Team

DPT was quietly chartered in spring, 1999, by then-NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin, in coordination with the White House Office of Management and Budget, and led jointly by the NASA Headquarters Offices of Human Spaceflight and Space Science.

Delaware lunar sample displays

The Delaware Apollo 17 lunar samples plaque display was presented by NASA astronaut Paul Joseph Weitz to then-Delaware Governor Sherman W. Tribbitt on January 21, 1975.

Douglas Chaffee

Chaffee has also worked as head of IBM's Art Department, has done paintings for NASA, the military, the book and the gaming industry, and did the official program painting for the Trident submarine.

Džentlmeni

The song was also included on the band debut 1968 extended play, Idi (Go), featuring the title track, a cover version of Sandie Shaw single "Today", "Naša mladost" ("Our Youth"), recorded at the Subotica Youth festival in 1968, and "Slatko" ("Sweet"), a cover version of The Drifters hit "Sweets for My Sweet".

Entropy and life

In 1964, James Lovelock was among a group of scientists who were requested by NASA to make a theoretical life detection system to look for life on Mars during the upcoming space mission.

Flometrics

The Pistonless pump is a low pressure pump system originally designed to support NASA projects with the Crew Exploration Vehicle.

Fred Espenak

He is co-author with Jean Meeus of Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, October 2006.

Gingin Observatory

The telescopes primary objective is to photograph gamma ray bursts in the Universe and does this with two NASA satellites, the Swift and Glast.

Glenelg, Mars

The location was named Glenelg by NASA scientists for two reasons: all features in the immediate vicinity were given names associated with Yellowknife in northern Canada, and Glenelg is the name of a geological feature there.

Grumman OV-1 Mohawk

Texas Air Museum in Slaton, Texas has a modified OV-1D that was used by NASA that is on loan from the Museum of Naval Aviation.

Harvey Allen

Harry Julian Allen (1910–1977), also known as Harvey Allen, NASA engineer and administrator

Information Centre for History and Technology, Peenemünde

In the mid-1960s, building on his technical experience from Peenemünde, Wernher von Braun was able to design the Saturn V rocket for NASA that was used to fly to the moon.

James C. Fletcher

During his second administration at NASA, Fletcher was largely involved in efforts to recover from the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.

John Beck Hofmann

He has also created music used in multiple television shows, such as FX's "Nip/Tuck", MTV's "The Real World", Travel Channel's "Eye of the Beholder" and multiple NASA documentaries.

John G. Linvill

John Linvill was Chairman of the board of TSI, served on the boards of other Silicon Valley corporations, and led technical committees for the National Research Council, NASA, and the IEEE.

Kevin Pope

Kevin O. Pope, former NASA archaeologist and founder of Geo Eco Arch Research

Kirsty McCabe

McCabe studied Geophysics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a first class honours degree before going on to spend three months as an intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where she used satellite magnetic data to interpret the underlying crustal structure of parts of Australasia.

Lockheed Star Clipper

NASA supported the "classic" flyback design until 1971, when the maximum development budget was cut in half by the Office of Management and Budget, from about $10 to $5 billion.

Loop heat pipe

LHPs were first flight demonstrated on the NASA space shuttle in 1997 with STS-83 and STS-94.

Melba Roy Mouton

She started working for NASA In 1959, after working for the Army Map Service and the Census Bureau.

Mercury-Atlas 1

NASA's Owen Maynard, who was involved in Mercury systems engineering, led the recovery of the MA-1 capsule from the sea-floor (in which he performed a 30-foot free-dive to find one particular missing component of the capsule).

NASAspaceflight.com

NASASpaceFlight.com is dedicated to expanding the public's awareness and respect for the space flight industry, which in turn is reflected in the many thousands of space industry members on the site, ranging from NASA to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, United Space Alliance and the commercial space flight arena.

Neuffer

Judith Neuffer (born 1948), United States Naval Aviator and NASA administrator

Patrick Air Force Base

These rockets include satellites for the US military, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the National Security Agency, as well as scientific payload launches in support of NASA, weather satellite launches in support of NOAA, payloads in support of international customers such as the European Space Agency, and commercial payloads for various corporate communications entities.

Redstone Arsenal

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology was an Army research operation at that time, years before NASA.

Saturn-Shuttle

But because of the need to keep costs down and to allow President Richard Nixon to approve the shuttle program in 1972, NASA decided to utilize segmented solid rocket boosters similar to those used on the Titan III rocket instead of the S-IC, thus ending the Saturn program after the initial Saturn V order was completed.

ST5

Space Technology 5, a NASA test of ten new microsatellite technologies

STS-9

The mission was devoted entirely to Spacelab 1, a joint NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) program designed to demonstrate the ability to conduct advanced scientific research in space.

Systems Tool Kit

AGI states that STK has more than 40,000 installations at more than 800 global organizations such as NASA, ESA, CNES, DLR, Boeing, JAXA, ISRO, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, EADS, DOD, and Civil Air Patrol.

The Space Movie

The Space Movie is a documentary film produced in 1979 by Tony Palmer at the request of NASA, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Thomas Baron

After the Apollo 1 fire Baron wrote a 500-page report on NASA safety protocol violations, which he gave to Rep. Olin E. Teague's investigation at Cape Kennedy, Florida on April 21, 1967.

USAS American Mariner

While in the Pacific Ocean, the USAS American Mariner was temporarily assigned in late September 1962 to NASA in support of NASA's Project Mercury.

Vanna Bonta

In 2013, a haiku by Vanna Bonta was among top three selections to be launched to the planet Mars on a NASA spaceship for the MAVEN mission.

We Love Our Fatherland

"We Love You, Our Fatherland" (Serbian: Волимо те отаџбино наша / Volimo te otadžbino naša) is a 1997 military song written by Rade Radivojević.

WFF

Wallops Flight Facility - a NASA facility located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, primary use is a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies

Wojciech Rostafiński

Wojciech Antoni Rostafiński (19 September 1921 – 6 July 2002), codename "Masłowski", was a Polish soldier of Armia Krajowa during World War II and former scientist working for NASA.