 What is NASA?  The Launch of NASA  NASA’s High Points  Moon Controversy  Astronauts  The Fall  Future Missions  Random Facts  Conclusion.

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 What is NASA?  The Launch of NASA  NASA’s High Points  Moon Controversy  Astronauts  The Fall  Future Missions  Random Facts  Conclusion

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration  16 Facilities  Kenney Space Center  Head Quarters (Rodrigo) “Advancing technology and science through flight.” -Dryden’s Mission

 "An Act to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes.“ – Congress Preamble  President Dwight D. Eisenhower  October 1, 1958  National Defense  Cold War (Garber)

 First U.S. Satellite  80 inches long Diameter 6.25 inches 30.8 lbs  12.5 rotation cycle around earth  Measure Cosmic Rays Pickerting, Allen, Braun (Zell)

(Siceloff)

 President Kennedy  Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins  "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” –Neil Armstrong (Ryba)

 Reusable Spacecraft  Saved Money  President Nixon  Space Shuttle Columbia (1981)  STS-1: 36 Orbits around Earth (Ryba)

 Telescope on other side of Earth atmosphere  Edwin Hubble  Universe is expanding  8 years to assemble  400,000 parts & 26,000 miles of wire (NASA)

 Unmanned Exploration  December 1996 – July 1997: 306 Million Miles  Landing Gear: Parachute & Airbags  Expected lifespan of 7 days-1 month  2.3 billion bits of data (Grecious)

 NASA’s Mars Exploration Program  Study Mars Habitability  Launched Nov. 6, 2011 : Landed Aug. 5, 2012  253 Sols (Grecious)

(Mann)

 Obama administration, set a 2030 goal of two way trip to Mars.  Mars One-Private spaceflight  Use SpaceX Dragon capsule-First Group of for by 2022  Applications

WAVING FLAG  Ripple effect from being unfolded DUST

 What does the word Astronaut mean?  Types of Astronauts  General Requirements  Professional Requirements Astronaut Leroy Chiao (Hadhazy)

 Cause of the Budget cut  Controversies  Potential effects of the cut

 Leveraging Heritage Technology  2020 Launch  Preparing for future human missions (Grecious)

 Measures the expansion of the universe  European Space Agency  NASA contributes to the near-infrared spectrometer and imaging photometer (Carreau)

 Cordless Power Tools  Smoke Detectors  Temper Foam  Invisible Braces (Conger)

 Scratch-resistant lenses  Ear thermometer  Shoe insoles  Water filters (Conger)

 NASA’s Launch  NASA’s High Points  Moon Controversy  Astronauts  The Fall  Future Missions

 Carreau, John. “Euclid.” NASA. N.p., 8 Jul Web. 20 Apr  Conger, Cristen. "10 NASA Inventions You Might Use Every Day.". Online Posting to Physics at Discovery. Web. 23 Mar  Fosdick, CJ. "America's Space Program: The Downfall of NASA." 11 Jul N.p., Online Posting to Conservative Issues. Web. 23 Mar  Garber, Steve. "History Home.". N.p., Online Posting to NASA History Program Office. Web. 23 Mar  Garner, Robert, ed. “Hubble Space Telescope." NASA. N.p., 19 Apr Web. 20 Apr  Gibbs, Yvonne, ed. "Dryden Flight Research Center." NASA. N.p., 25 Oct Web. 20 Apr  Grecious, Tony, ed. “Mars Science Laboratory." NASA. N.p., 18 Apr Web. 20 Apr  Hadhazy, Adam. "How NASA Selected The 2013 Class Of Astronauts." Popular Science. 31 Jan 2013: Print.

 Mann, Adam. Ultra-HD Video of Curiosity Rover’s Landing. Wired, Filmstrip. 21 Apr  NASA. Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries Space Telescope Science Institute, eBook.  Siceloff, Steven. “Stamps Mark Shepard’s 1961 Flight.” NASA. N.p., 11 Dec Web. 20 Apr  Rodrigo. NASA Finds Ice on the Moon Cartoon. ToonpoolWeb. 21 Apr  Ryba, Jeanne, ed. “Apollo 11.” NASA. N.p., 8 Jul Web. 20 Apr  Ryba, Jeanne, ed. “Shuttle.” NASA. N.p., 4 Dec Web. 20 Apr  Ward, Bob. "Man Enters Space." Huntsville Times [Chicago] n.d., 1. Print.  Wilson, Jim, ed. “Mars Pathfinder." NASA. N.p., 10 Aug Web. 20 Apr  Zell, Holly, ed. “Explorer 1.” NASA. N.p., 26 Oct Web. 20 Apr 2013.