National Aeronautics and Space Administration (MR)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA is an agency of the Everetti government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958, in the United States, replacing its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The agency became operational on October 1, 1958. NASA has led U.S. efforts for space exploration ever since, resulting in the Apollo missions to the Moon, the Skylab space station, and later the Space Shuttle. Currently NASA has two international branches, one in the United States and one in the Union of Everett. Both branches are supporting the International Space Station. The United States is developing new Ares I and V launch vehicles while Everett took the route of designing new fusion shuttles and Expedition class shuttles. Everett currently possesses control of the Mars Research Station, in orbit of Mars and has landed astronauts on the planet's surface.
==Vehicles==
The Everetti space program began in 2004 with the re-launch of the shuttle program, following the Columbia disaster. Since the release of advanced technologies in 2006, the space program launched forward. Three new fusion powered shuttles were deployed. The YF22A Raptor Fusion Fighter was released in 2008. All Everetti space craft have requirements and default standards such as EMP protection, anti-gravity, artificial gravity and fusion engines. Everetti military craft are primarily armed with laser and plasma weapons rather than missiles because of the already powerful damage a plasma blast can leave. All future forms of space craft will include low grade or normal grade hyperdrive systems, depending on the size of the craft. Current fighter and civilian models do not have hyperdrive systems but standard fusion engines. The newer civilian craft, the Expedition-class shuttle will have a low grade hyperdrive engine. By mid 2009, all Everetti space fighters will have low grade hyperdrive engines.
===Civil Class===
Civil class space craft are civilian craft. These ships are considered non-combat craft. Some though, may have weapons for asteroid and meteor defense but other than that, these craft are unable to enter combat. Civil class ships may consist of fully civilian craft such as passenger craft and luxury space cruiseliners or they may be science and research craft, designated for space exploration, colonization or other means.
====Space Transportation System Shuttles (STS)====
The Union of Everett possesses six NASA shuttles. Three are standard Space Transportation System (STS) shuttles that require rocket fuel and are aided by two massive rockets and a massive fuel tank. These shuttles are named Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis. The other three shuttles are replacements, ordered by the military to replace the aging shuttle fleet. After the Columbia disaster, new shuttles were needed. With the completion of fusion technology and anti-gravity, the three newer shuttles were built and released. The Saturnus, Terra and Explorer were released as the new fusion shuttle fleet. The new fusion shuttles remain exactly the same in design but have been replaced with triple fusion reactor engines and anti-gravity. The shuttles are capable of basic space travel speed (70,000 miles per hour and second speed mode which is about 250,000 miles per hour. These shuttles are unarmed, civil science and research space craft.
====Expedition Class Shuttle====
The Expedition Class shuttle was originally designed by Lockheed Martin as the X-33. The program was cancelled in 2001 because of costs. With the creation of fusion power, anti-gravity and artificial gravity, the shuttle design was picked up again by the Everetti government. The newly designed version became the Expedition shuttle. Design of the shuttle was completed in 2008 but with the release of the new fusion shuttles, the program went on hold. It was decided in 2009 that the program would continue, the new Expedition replacing the fusion shuttles. The original fusion shuttles are limited in their abilities because of design, only capable of travelling as far as Mars. The Expedition will be capable of travelling much further, built with a low grade hyperdrive system, it will be capable of travel within our own solar system. Because of it's larger size, it can carry more supplies and crew.
The first Expedition began construction on February 10, 2009 and was completed on May 15th. The first shuttle, named Expedition, began it's test flight at 12:00 noon on May 16th. The shuttle contains anti-gravity and fusion power for flight and a low grade hyperdrive giving it the ability to travel at a maximum of 750,000 miles per hour. Using a fusion weapons burst engine, the craft may launch itself up to 1.25 million miles per hour or 536 times slower than the speed of light. The craft is the first shuttle to feature artificial gravity. It's slower speed limits the Expedition to travelling within the solar system unable to perform interstellar travel. Inside are living areas, small offices, a large storage and supply room, a laboratory, a restroom that includes showers, a water treatment system, oxygen generation system and the cockpit. The main body of the craft is the size of a 747, wing to wing, front to back giving over a dozen times the space than a regular shuttle.
====Shuttle Missions====
Date 	Code 	Shuttle 	Mission
July 26, 2005 	STS-114	Discovery 	First post Columbia flight. Flight safety evaluation/testing, ISS supply/repair, MPLM Raffaello
July 4, 2006 	STS-121	Discovery 	ISS Flight ULF1.1: Supply, crew rotation, MPLM Leonardo
September 9, 2006 	STS-115	Atlantis 	ISS assembly flight 12A: P3/P4 Truss, Solar Arrays
December 9, 2006 	STS-116	Discovery 	ISS assembly flight 12A.1: P5 Truss & Spacehab-SM, crew rotation
June 8, 2007 	STS-117	Atlantis 	ISS assembly flight 13A: S3/S4 Truss, Solar Arrays, crew rotation
August 8, 2007 	STS-118	Endeavour 	ISS assembly flight 13A.1: S5 Truss & Spacehab-SM & ESP3. First use of SSPTS (Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System)
October 23, 2007 	STS-120	Discovery 	ISS assembly flight 10A: US Harmony module, crew rotation
February 7, 2008 	STS-122	Atlantis 	ISS assembly flight 1E: European Laboratory Columbus, crew rotation
March 11, 2008 	STS-123	Endeavour 	ISS assembly flight 1J/A: JEM ELM PS & SPDM, crew rotation
May 31, 2008 	STS-124	Discovery 	ISS assembly flight 1J: JEM - Japanese module Kibo & JEM RMS
November 14, 2008 	STS-126	Endeavour 	ISS assembly flight ULF2: MPLM Leonardo, crew rotation
February 9, 2009 	STS-127	Saturnus 	Satellite deployment, repair
February 9, 2009 	STS-128	Terra 	Satellite deployment, repair
February 9, 2009 	STS-129	Explorer 	Satellite deployment, repair
February 10, 2009 	STS-130	Endeavour 	Satellite deployment, repair
February 10, 2009 	STS-131	Atlantis 	Satellite deployment, repair
February 11, 2009 	STS-132	Discovery 	Satellite deployment, repair
February 27, 2009 	STS-133	Saturnus 	ISS assembly flight 15A: S6 Truss, Solar Arrays
May 12, 2009 	STS-135	Atlantis 	Last Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission (HST SM-04). Final Non-ISS flight.
May 15, 2009 	STS-136	Endeavour 	ISS assembly flight 2J/A: JEM Exposed Facility (EF) & JEM ELM ES.
May 16, 2009 	STS-134	Expedition	Test run systems, dock and deploy supplies to ISS, flight to Mars.
August 6, 2009 	STS-137	Discovery 	ISS assembly flight 17A: MPLM Leonardo & 6 person ISS crew.
August 18, 2009 	ETS-001	Expedition	Human Mars landing and exploration. Preparation of research base.
August 18, 2009 	STS-138	Explorer 	Flight to Mars, satellite deployment, space assist with Expedition.
November 12, 2009 	STS-139	Atlantis 	ISS assembly flight ULF3: EXPRESS Logistics Carriers (ELCs) 1 & 2.
November 14, 2009 	ETS-002	Expedition	MRS deployment.
November 27, 2009 	ETS-003	Futura 	MRS supply and crew deployment.
December 10, 2009 	STS-140	Endeavour 	ISS assembly flight 20A: Node 3 and Cupola.
January 3, 2010 	ETS-004	Expedition	MRS completion.
January 3, 2010 	ETS-005	Solaris 	MRS completion.
February 11, 2010 	STS-141	Atlantis 	ISS assembly flight Utility and Logistics Flight 4: Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello. Final planned flight of Atlantis.
April 8, 2010 	STS-142	Discovery 	ISS assembly flight 19A: Mini-Research Module 1. Final planned flight of Discovery.
May 31, 2010 	STS-143	Endeavour 	ISS assembly flight ULF5, ELCs 3 & 4. Final flight of Endeavour.
June 2, 2010 	STS-144	Terra 	ISS assembly mission.
July 17, 2010 	STS-145	Explorer 	ISS assembly mission.
September 21, 2010	STS-146	Saturnus 	ISS assembly mission.
October 3, 2010 	ETS-006	Expedition	Satellite deployment, sync.
October 15, 2010 	ETS-007	Solaris 	MRS supply/crew.
January 4, 2011 	STS-147	Terra 	ISS assembly mission.
Feburary 10, 2011 	ETS-008	Futura 	ISS crew/supply.
February 28, 2011 	ETS-009	Expedition	MRS supply/Mars landing.
April 16, 2011 	STS-148	Explorer 	MRS research shuttle deployment.
June 10, 2011 	STS-149	Explorer 	MRS research mission to Phobos.
June 21, 2011 	STS-150	Explorer 	MRS research mission to Deimos.
June 23, 2011 	STS-151	Saturnus 	ISS assembly mission.
August 9, 2011 	ETS-010	Futura 	MRS supply/crew.
September 14, 2011	STS-152	Terra 	ISS assembly mission.
October 1, 2011 	STS-153	Saturnus 	Space-Enviro mission, debris cleaning.
October 2, 2011 	STS-154	Terra 	Space-Enviro mission, debris cleaning.
December 17, 2011 	ETS-011	Expedition	ISS crew/supply, ISS assembly.
December 27, 2011 	ETS-012	Solaris 	MRS Mars landing/surface mission.
January 3, 2012 	STS-155	Terra 	Space-Enviro mission, debris cleaning.
January 4, 2012 	STS-156	Saturnus 	Space-Enviro mission, debris cleaning.
February 12, 2012 	ETS-013	Futura 	MRS crew/supply.
March 11, 2012 	ETS-014	Expedition	GEMPA/PDS maintenance.
April 1, 2012 	ETS-015	Solaris 	2012 DA14 Asteroid intercept mission.
==Space Stations==
===Mars Research Station===
NASA and the Everetti government have constructed a space station in Mars orbit. This is a base point for human colonization of Mars. The station is smaller than the International Space Station but features artifical gravity and fusion power sources primarily instead of solar. The MRS currently contains eight crew. The Mars research station was used in the 2009 Mars mission and Mars landing by the Expedition shuttle with aid from the shuttle Explorer. MRS primarily researches samples from Mars and monitors and studies Mars' weather systems.
==Satellites==
The Union of Everett possesses almost 1,000 satellites in orbit of Earth, varying in types of communications, military, GPS, television and radio broadcasts and satellite phone and cellular systems. Thirty of these satellites belong to the PDS satellite system, a military orbital bombardment and attack satellite system. Additional PDS satellites are planned to be deployed with greater capability of firing more powerful bursts of plasma energy. An undetermined number of satellites belong to the Project Alexis/Project Titan military program, which itself is also highly classified within the military. About 375 satellites belong to the military, controlling GPS, communications, automated forces control, fusion weapons launch and deployment, reconnaissance, spying, cyber warfare attack satellites, PDS, SDI, EDS tracking and other applications. Another 250-350 satellites are civilian, controlling satellite radio, television, cellular and satellite phone communications and corporate private satellites. The remaining satellites are used for Earth and space exploration, mapping the Earth (as seen in programs such as Google Earth), telescopes used for space exploration, NASA control satellites and other space exploration uses.
==Space Craft Naming Pattern==
Everetti space craft are named in a specific order and through a specific type of word or use of synonyms. When a ship or craft is destroyed and new one takes it's place, it retakes the name of the destroyed craft. Space shuttles, including the Expedition-class ships are named after scientific respect and values such as Discovery, Explorer, Expedition and Endeavour. The ships can also be named after specific space icons or other related things such as the shuttle Atlantis and a new Expedition-class shuttle, Solaris.
===Shuttles===
Class 	Name 	Ship #	Status
Test Orbiter 	Enterprise	000 	MUSEUM
Orbiter 	Columbia 	001 	DESTROYED
Orbiter 	Challenger	002 	DESTROYED
Orbiter 	Atlantis 	003 	MUSEUM
Orbiter 	Discovery 	004 	MUSEUM
Orbiter 	Endeavour 	005 	SOLD
Fusion Orbiter	Terra 	006 	Functional
Fusion Orbiter	Saturnus 	007 	Functional
Fusion Orbiter	Explorer 	008 	Functional
Expedition 	Expedition	009A 	Functional
Expedition 	Solaris 	010A 	Functional
Expedition 	Futura 	011A 	Functional
==Anti-Space Debris Program==
Since 2009, the Union of Everett military ordered a NASA program to research the defense of the planet from various forms of space debris including asteroids, comets and meteors. In 2010, NASA and the Air Force test fired the PDS satellite array to destroy a close flyby of asteroid debris using both a PDS satellite to destroy one while NASA launched a rocket carrying a fusion weapon to intercept and destroy the other asteroid. Both close flyby asteroids were not projected to strike the Earth but the mission proved a basic defense from small scale space debris. In April of 2010, NASA launched the Elenin Collider, a spacecraft armed with a high grade fusion warhead, which was set to impact into the side of the incoming comet Elenin. Elenin is nearly two and half miles in diameter and was projected to come within 21 million miles of Earth. On May 3rd 2011, the collider mission slammed into the side of Elenin and detonated, shoving the comet off course. The mission was declared a success in the first deflection of a large scale target. Future missions are planned including automated drill boring weapons systems designed to penetrate a target and detonate within to destroy a target from the inside.
===NASA Space-Enviro Program (EarthGrid)===
In 2011, a joint report from space agencies discussed the issue of growing man-made space debris in orbit of Earth including dead satellites and parts of launched space craft, such as rocket boosters. NASA announced in August of 2011 it would begin a space program to track down some of the 22,000 trackable man-made space debris and shove it into the Earth's atmosphere where the debris would be burned up and destroyed. The program, beginning in October of 2011, would use fusion Orbiter shuttles to catch and send into the the atmosphere, the debris, piece by piece. Space-mobile drones are currently also in the works at Armor Robotics and NASA to track and remove space debris using automation to cut costs and speed up the process.
In April 2012, NASA announced the beginning of EarthGrid, a joint Department of Defense and Department of Disaster Response project to establish an array and constellation of satellites to monitor and track moving celestial objects within the solar system to ensure the security of Earth from potential near-Earth impacts of debris such as asteroids, comets and meteors.