National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), an independent United States government agency founded in 1958 to conduct research and development of vehicles and activities for the exploration of space within and beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

The organization is divided into four mission directorates: Aeronautics Research, which is responsible for the development of advanced aviation technologies; Science, which is responsible for programmed aimed at understanding the origin, structure, and evolution of the universe, the solar system, and Earth; Space Technology, which is responsible for the development of space science and exploration technologies; and Human Exploration and Operations, which is responsible for the management of crewed space missions, including those to the International Space Station. The Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California; the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas; and the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia are all affiliated. NASA’s headquarters are in Washington, D.C.

NASA was established in large part in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957. It was centered on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which Congress established in 1915. By the early years of President John F. Kennedy’s administration, NASA’s organization was well underway, and he proposed that the United States land a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s. The Apollo programmed was created to that end, and in 1969, US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon. Unmanned programmed like Viking, Mariner, Voyager, and Galileo later explored other bodies in the solar system.

NASA was also in charge of the development and launch of several satellites with Earth applications, including Landsat, a series of satellites designed to collect data on natural resources and other Earth features; communications satellites; and weather satellites. It also planned and built the space shuttle, a reusable vehicle capable of carrying out missions that conventional spacecraft could not.

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