National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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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.

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Example Sentences

National Aeronautics and Space Administration leaders said the agency disregarded crew safety by pushing ahead with the failed Starliner mission in 2024, which waylaid astronauts for months at the International Space Station.

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Postal Service, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Public Broadcasting Service were once important and excellent institutions.

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He writes about longtime and newer space companies, as well as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration.

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She assured officials at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that the company and agency would make it through the situation, according to Brian Hughes, who served as NASA’s chief of staff last year.

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But for Caleb Scharf, an astrobiologist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a future of space colonization is written in the stars.

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