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NASA
[nas-uh]
noun
National Aeronautics and Space Administration: the federal agency that institutes and administers the civilian programs of the U.S. government that deal with aeronautical research and the development of launch vehicles and spacecraft.
NASA
/ ˈæə /
acronym
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Example Sentences
The next frontier for the streamer: live rocket launches from NASA.
But don’t worry, says NASA, because the aircraft you are seeing are conducting research and studying atmospheric data.
As a result, viewers might begin to understand why the famed astronaut chose to avoid further scrutiny, and likely homophobia, because of her public-facing role as ’s poster girl.
The cuts, Dreier says, reduce ’s budget to less than it has been, accounting for inflation, since the earliest days of Project Mercury in the early 1960s.
During ’s Perseverance mission on Mars in 2021, the rover’s microphones detected the whir of the mission’s helicopter and noises created by the rover.
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When To Use
NASA is short for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a civilian agency of the United States government that specializes in space exploration and research about flight and aircraft.Aeronautics is the science of flight. Although NASA is most known for space travel and research, it also researches things like supersonic flight, energy-efficient aircraft, and drones.Over the years, NASA has advanced space exploration and made many contributions to science. Its notable programs and missions have included astronaut moon landings, Mars rovers, satellites around planets, and interstellar telescopes.One of ’s earliest and most famous programs was the Apollo program, which put the first person on the moon on July 20, 1969.NASA runs numerous missions and programs at its facilities across the United States.
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