National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Cultural  

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

The company also won a National Aeronautics and Space Administration contract in 2023 to deliver a larger moon lander for astronauts on a mission expected a few years from now.

From The Wall Street Journal

One comes from the sociologist Diane Vaughan, who embedded herself with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for months after the disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Literature

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

From The Wall Street Journal