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 NASA Article, NASA Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
NASA's early programs were research into manned spaceflight, and were conducted under the pressure of the competition betweenthe USA and the USSR (the Space Race)that existed during the Cold War.
NASA had won the space race, and in some senses this left it without direction, or at the very least without the publicattention and interest that was necessary to guarantee large budgets from Congress.
The shuttle was not all good news for NASAflights were much more expensive than initially projected, and even afterthe 1986 Challenger disaster highlighted the risks of space flight, the public again lost interest as missions appeared to become mundane.
www.anoca.org /space/missions/nasa.html   (1545 words)

  
 Space> NASA [encyclopedia]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
October 1, 1958, the official start of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was the beginning of a rich history of unique scientific and technological achievements in human space flight, aeronautics, space science, and space applications.
NASA’s human space flight efforts then extended to the Moon with Project Apollo, culminating in 1969 when the Apollo 11 mission first put humans on the lunar surface.
NASA has also done important research on such topics as "lifting bodies" (wingless airplanes) and "supercritical wings" to dampen the effect of shock waves on transsonic aircraft.
encyclozine.com /NASA   (551 words)

  
 NASA Space Flight Medal - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 LifeWings Partners LLC Partner Drew Gaffney
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Associate Professor of Medicine
NASA Space Station Science and Applications Subcommittee - Consultant, 1991.
Committee on Space Biology and Medicine, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences Press, Washington DC, 1998.
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