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NASA: Large strategic science missions, the NASA flagship missions; Discovery Program, medium-cost NASA missions; New Frontiers program, medium-large NASA missions to outer planets; When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions – 2008 documentary covering NASA's mission history. Space exploration; Timeline of Solar System exploration
As the US's premier aeronautics agency, NACA formed the core of NASA's new structure by reassigning 8,000 employees and three major research laboratories. NASA also proceeded to absorb the Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard, the Army's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the Army Ballistic Missile Agency under Wernher von Braun. This ...
This is a timeline of space exploration which includes notable achievements, first accomplishments and milestones in humanity's exploration of outer space. This timeline generally does not distinguish achievements by a specific country or private company, as it considers humanity as a whole.
On July 29, 1958, the U.S. Congress officially passed legislation that established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) -- a civilian agency that is responsible for ...
This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.
On 1 July 1994, NAS Moffett Field was closed as a naval air station and turned over to the NASA Ames Research Center. NASA Ames now operates the facility as Moffett Federal Airfield. Since being decommissioned as a primary military installation, part of Moffett has been made accessible to the public, including a cordoned portion of the interior ...
There was a solar eclipse on Aug.. 21, 2017 with 70% to 80% coverage in New Jersey. On Jan. 24, 1925, Passaic and Paterson were in the path of totality for a solar eclipse, according to timeandate ...
Photos taken in the bayside section of Toms River, NJ of what appear to be large drones hovering in the area at high altitudes sometime between 8:33 p.m. and 8:49 p.m. on Dec. 8, 2024.