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1 Although they were officially designated to study just ________ and Saturn, the two probes were able to continue their mission into the outer solar system.

2 [16] Earlier research efforts within the ________[15] and many of ARPA's early space programs were also transferred to NASA.

3 The ISS is operated as a joint project between the American NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency (RKA), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the ________ (CSA), and the European Space Agency (ESA).

4 Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, ________

5 What is the abbreviation of NASA?

6 In US dollars, what was the budget of NASA?

7 The mission began in 2003 with the sending of the two rovers — MER-A Spirit and MER-B Opportunity — to explore the Martian surface and ________.

8 Additionally, the Pioneer mission to ________ consisted of two components, launched separately.

9 Enhanced weather prediction for Energy Forecasting (DOE, ________ (EPA))

10 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ________, Pasadena, California

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Serge Monast was a Québécois journalist and conspiracy theorist who claimed that Project Blue Beam is a NASA plan to fake the Second Coming of Christ to bring about the New World Order?
  • Rocco Petrone was the first non-German administrator of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center?
  • Olga D. González-Sanabria, a Puerto Rican scientist and inventor, is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center?
  • Mercedes Reaves, a Puerto Rican research engineer and scientist, is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center?
  • although NASA originally thought that there was only one scalloped margin dome on the planet Venus (pictured), they have since discovered hundreds of them?
  • during World War II, Paul C. Donnelly (pictured) helped develop the U.S. Navy's Bat, the first U.S. "smart bomb", and later was a senior NASA manager during the Apollo program?
  • using concepts described in Sefer ha-Temunah (pictured) the 13th-century Kabbalist Isaac ben Samuel calculated the age of the Universe, a number relatively close to the one estimated by NASA?
  • the automated Launch Processing System used by NASA for Space Shuttle launches has reduced the required number of firing room personnel to half of those required for an Apollo launch?
  • the DR 6 nebula (pictured) was nicknamed "The Galactic Ghoul" by scientists at NASA because of its resemblance to a human face?
  • the Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House in Washington, D.C., has been called the "Cream White House" and the "Little White House," and was once the headquarters for NASA?
  • Leonid Kadeniuk, the first astronaut of the independent Ukraine, made his first space flight on NASA's space shuttle Columbia in 1997, and had been training for such a mission since 1976?
  • Daniel S. Goldin spearheaded the "faster, better, cheaper" approach at NASA?
  • NASA conducts field trials, called Desert RATS, for new technologies for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon, Mars, or beyond?
  • NASA terraforming expert Christopher McKay has explored the Gobi Desert, Siberia and Antarctica to study extremophilic life forms?
  • NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson has logged 497 hours in space?
  • Jesuit Donald Merrifield, the first president of Loyola Marymount University after its creation, worked as a consultant for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory?
  • NASA engineer Harvey Allen's "Blunt Body Theory" made possible the design of heat shields that protected the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts?
  • NASA inventor and scientist, Dr. Pedro Rodriguez is the son of the renowned Puerto Rican salsa singer, the late Pellin Rodriguez?
  • Claudia Alexander was the last project manager of NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter?
  • Rocketdyne's E-1 rocket engine never saw production, but gave NASA confidence to develop the F-1 that powered the Saturn V to the Moon?
  • NASA test pilot Joe Walker's X-1E and record-setting X-15 were two of the very few research aircraft to have nose art? (pictured, Joe Walker and the X-1E)
  • NASA offers interested individuals opportunities to fly small experiments aboard the space shuttle called Getaway Specials?
  • freestyle wrestler William Kerslake, who competed in three Olympiads and got a gold medal at the 1955 Pan American Games, was also a NASA engineer and co-inventor of of the first ion thruster for space propulsion?
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