National Aeronautics and Space Administration

1. An agency of the United States government, charged with directing civilian programs in aeronautics research and space exploration. NASA maintains several facilities, most notably the Johnson Space Center in Houston (which selects space crew personnel and is responsible for ground direction of space flights), and the launching pads at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Example Sentences

It deployed two National Aeronautics and Space Administration science satellites that will fly to Mars and study the red planet’s atmosphere.

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“The plane belonged to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Name of the pilot was withheld.”

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One example: his threat to decommission a spacecraft that transports National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronauts to the International Space Station.

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The satellite images were provided by National Aeronautics and Space Administration satellites.

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In April, Boeing shifted the focus of a project with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration aimed at developing a radical new and greener aircraft, known as X-66.

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