NASA
abbreviation/ˈnæsə/
/ˈnæsə/
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration(a US government organization that does research into space and organizes space travel)CultureNASA's office is in Washington, DC, and the main centres include the John F Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center near Houston, Texas, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. NASA was established in 1958 by President Dwight D Eisenhower to replace the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).Topics Spacec1
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