NASA

(noun)

The agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research.

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Examples of NASA in the following topics:

  • Making Policy

    • The best known include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Social Security Administration (SSA).

  • Independent Agencies

    • Other independent executive agencies include the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency).
    • The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, is a government agency responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

    • After college, he and went on to work as an engineer at NASA.
    • Bakke said that his interest in medicine began while serving in Vietnam and increased at NASA, as he had to consider the problems of space flight for the human body.

  • Investing in Research and Development

    • For example, NASA is a government agency that also does research.

  • The Carbon Cycle

    • An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe.
    • The carbon dioxide visualization was produced by a computer model called GEOS-5, created by scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office.

  • Mars and a Biosphere

    • This is the true-color view of Mars as seen through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1999.

  • The Women's Rights Movement

    • By the early 1980s, it was largely perceived that women had met their goals and succeeded in changing social attitudes towards gender roles, repealing oppressive laws that were based on sex, integrating "boys' clubs" such as military academies, the United States Armed Forces, NASA, single-sex colleges, men's clubs, and the Supreme Court, and by accomplishing the goal of making gender discrimination illegal.
    • By the early 1980s, it was largely perceived that women had met their goals and succeeded in changing social attitudes towards gender roles, repealing oppressive laws that were based on sex, integrating "boys' clubs" such as military academies, the United States Armed Forces, NASA, single-sex colleges, men's clubs, and the Supreme Court, and by accomplishing the goal of making gender discrimination illegal.

  • The Eisenhower Administration

    • He sent the Army to Arkansas to enforce court orders regarding racial integration, created NASA, and made the space race against Russia a high priority.
    • Eisenhower came under heavy criticism after the Sputnik launch, and his administration responded to this crisis with many strategic initiatives, including the creation of NASA in 1958 and a speeding up of the American space program.
    • Under Eisenhower, the NASA's human spaceflight program started and visionary projects such as Saturn and the F-1 rocket engine were funded.

  • Groupthink

    • NASA management had been divided about whether or not to proceed with the launch when they discovered that the temperatures on the morning of the launch were low enough to emperil the spacecraft, but management decided to proceed.

  • Applications of the Parabola

    • Aircraft used to create a weightless state for purposes of experimentation, such as NASA's "Vomit Comet," follow a vertically parabolic trajectory for brief periods.