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unusual facts about National Aeronautics and Space Administration



Bruce McCandless

McCandless was the father of NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II.

Chinese exclusion policy of NASA

Due to security concerns, all researchers from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are prohibited from working bilaterally with Chinese citizens affiliated with a Chinese state enterprise or entity.

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.

Constantine A. Balanis

From 1964 to 1970 he was with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia and from 1970 to 1983 he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.

Frank B. McDonald

He was a key force behind several initiatives and programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for which he served as chief scientist.

Gravity Probe A

Gravity Probe A (GP-A) was a space-based experiment to test the theory of general relativity, performed jointly by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

History of spaceflight

On July 29, 1958, the US Congress passed legislation turning the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with responsibility for the nation's civilian space programs.

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.

Joint Planning and Development Office

The JPDO is a multi-agency public/private initiative to include: United States Department of Transportation, United States Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Aviation Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Luca Urbani

Following candidature by the Italian Space Agency, Urbani was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in May 1995 as an alternate Payload Specialist for the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS) mission, STS-78, and began training for the flight duties of a Payload Specialist Astronaut at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Mailam Engineering College

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Portuguese Center for Pollution Prevention (C3P), jointly organised an International Workshop on Environment and Alternative Energy with the theme of "Global Collaboration in Sustainable Environmental and Alternative Energy Strategies" at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, Netherlands, on 15–18 November 2011.

Museum of Flight

It includes a mock-up NASA mission control, and experiments from all areas of space research.

In June 2010, the museum broke ground on a $12 million new building to house a Space Shuttle it hoped to receive from NASA, named the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery.

Oxford Township, Erie County, Ohio

A small section of NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station facility is located in Oxford Township.

Pioneer 3

Pioneer 3 was a spin stabilized spacecraft launched at 05:45:12 UTC on 6 December 1958 by the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency in conjunction with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, using a Juno II rocket.

Robert L. Hurt

His work has been used by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Rubber ducky antenna

On the other hand Dr. Thomas A. Clark, a senior scientist with NASA, claims to have named it after listening to one of Vaughn Meader's comedies about the Kennedy family.

Television Infrared Observation Satellite

Participants in this satellite project included the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States Army Signal Research and Development Lab, Radio Corporation of America, the United States Weather Bureau, and the United States Naval Photographic Interpretation Center.


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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.