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| | AllRefer.com - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Space Exploration) - Encyclopedia |
 | | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), and rocketry. |
 | | The best-known NASA facilities are the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Houston, Tex., where flights are coordinated, and the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., where all space shuttle launches take place. |
 | | Other facilities include the Dryden, Goddard, and Stennis centers and NASA headquarters, in Washington, D.C. Despite some highly publicized failures, NASA has in many cases successfully completed its missions within their projected budgets; the total cost of the Apollo project, for example, wound up very close to the original $20-billion estimate. |
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