Talk:National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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 Definition Independent agency of the U.S. government responsible for the nation's public space program. [d] [e]
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May 5, 1961 launch of Redstone rocket and NASA's Mercury spacecraft #7 Freedom 7 with Alan Shepard Jr. on the United States' first human flight into sub-orbital space. (Atlas rockets were used to launch Mercury's orbital missions).
For more information, see: Project Apollo.
Left to Right: Saturn V, which last carried men to the moon, the Space Shuttle and the planned Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles
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Orion Contractor Selected Aug. 31, 2006, at NASA Headquarters
Florida, USA, taken from NASA Shuttle Mission STS-95 on October 31, 1998.