National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was the designation for an early Human space exploration agency created by the Earth nation United States of America in 1958. ()
NASA oversaw the launch of a vast majority of the major US spaceflight milestones of the 20th and 21st centuries.
==History==
*1958 – NASA was founded
*1959 – The Ranger program started ()
*1960 – The probe Pioneer 5 was launched ()
*1961 – Alan Shepard was the first American astronaut in space ()
*1962 – John Glenn was the first American to complete an orbit of the Earth ()
*1962 – The probe Mariner 2 was launched ()
*1962 – The probe Ranger 5 was launched ()
*1968 – An orbital nuclear warhead platform was launched from McKinley Rocket Base; the warhead apparently arms itself, but explodes 104 miles from Earth's surface ()
*1969 – The Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the Moon, recording Humanity's first steps on another celestial body; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first Humans to step on the Moon (; ; ) 
* 1970s – Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 take images of the Jovian moon Europa. ()
* 1971 – Alan Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission ( opening credits)
* 1972 – The probe Pioneer 10 was launched ()
* 1973 – The first American space station Skylab was launched into Earth orbit; (; ) Pioneer 11 was launched ()
* 1976 – The space shuttle orbiter program started by conducting the first tests with the prototype, ( opening credits; )
* 1979 – Pioneer 11 became the first Human spacecraft to visit Saturn; this success was the culmination of 22 years of work to visit and survey those planets that had been seen by Humans prior to the invention of the telescope ( okudagram)
* 1986 – The space shuttle orbiter Challenger OV-099 exploded 78 seconds after liftoff, killing seven astronauts (dedication from )
* 1990s: NASA began participation in the International Space Station project ( opening credits)
* 1990s: takes images of the Jovian moon Europa. ()
* 1996 – Scientists from NASA found the first microscopic evidence of past life on Mars ()
* 1997 – Sojourner, the first rover vehicle launched by NASA, landed on Mars ()
* 1999 – The probe Voyager 6 was launched (; )
* 2002 – The probe Nomad MK-15c, constructed by Jackson Roykirk, was launched ()
* Early 21st century – The space shuttle orbiter OV-165 was launched ( opening credits)
* Early 21st century – The Earth-Saturn probe expedition was conducted by Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher and includes Fontana and (; )
* Early 21st century – NASA collaborated with other space agencies in the International Space Agency, in particular during the Ares IV mission to Mars in 2032 (conducted by John Kelly, Rose Kumagawa, and Andrei Novakovich) ()
*2037 – The spaceship Charybdis was launched as the third attempt to explore beyond the Sol system; the crew includes Colonel Stephen G. Richey, , Schmitt, and Cernan ()
* 2038 – NASA lost contact with the Charybdis following a failure in the ship's telemetry system; it was later learned that the Charybdis was contaminated by an alien lifeform which infected and killed all personnel except mission commander Stephen G. Richey ()
*Unknown – Cassini
== Personnel ==
=== Astronauts ===
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*Schmitt
=== Others ===
* (media relations department)
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*O'Donnell's NASA class (status unknown)
== Vehicles and rockets ==
*Mercury capsule
*Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle
== Background information ==
During the 1970s, Nichelle Nichols worked for NASA, helping recruit women and ethnic minority astronauts, including the first female American astronaut and 2010s NASA administrator . 
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration received "grateful acknowledgment" in the closing credits of , as well as the closing credits of .
To achieve a more realistic and gritty look for Deep Space 9, the production team looked at NASA photographs of the space shuttle orbiters and other space vehicles. (Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before)
For the rendering of Earth seen in and , David Takemura used an eight-by-ten NASA transparency of the planet to create the footage. ()
Three "real" NASA astronauts have appeared in Trek productions – (the first African-American woman in space) played Lt. in , while E. Michael Fincke and Terry Virts (though Virts was uncredited) appeared together as Lt. M. Fincke and Ens. T. Virts, respectively, in the the fourth season episode .
NASA is featured heavily in the opening credits for Star Trek: Enterprise, including a diagram of the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, the space shuttle orbiter , the Apollo program, a Saturn V rocket, and the Mars rover Sojourner.
== External links ==
* – official website
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