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NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, located inside Edwards Air Force Base, was named in honor of the late Hugh L. Dryden, one of America's most prominent aeronautical engineers, on Mar. 26, 1976. At the time of his death in 1965, he was NASA's deputy administrator. First known as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Muroc Flight Test Unit, the DFRC has also been known as the High-Speed Flight Research Station ( 1949) and the High-Speed Flight Station ( 1954). ...more on Wikipedia about "Dryden Flight Research Center"
The Glenn Research Center is located in Cleveland, Ohio between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Rocky River Reservation (part of the Cleveland Metroparks). Its current Director is Dr. Julian M. Earls and its Deputy Director is Richard S. Christiansen. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glenn Research Center"
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), at Columbia University in New York City, is a component laboratory of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Earth-Sun Exploration Division and a unit of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Research at GISS emphasizes a broad study of global climate change. It is named for Dr. Robert Goddard. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goddard Institute for Space Studies"
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), located in Greenbelt, Maryland, is a major space science laboratory. It was named in memory of Robert Goddard, the father of modern rocket propulsion, and was established on May 1, 1959. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goddard Space Flight Center"
Honeysuckle Creek was a NASA spacecraft-tracking station near Canberra, Australia at from 1967 to 1981. It served as a communications relay station for Project Apollo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station" www.shortopedia.com never sleeps.
The Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in La Cañada Flintridge, near Pasadena, California, USA, builds and operates unmanned spacecraft for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA). JPL-run projects include the Galileo Jupiter mission and the Mars rovers, including the 1997 Mars Pathfinder and the twin 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers. To date, JPL has sent unmanned missions to every planet except Pluto. In addition, JPL has also done extensive mapping missions of the Earth. JPL also manages the world-wide Deep Space Network, with facilities in California's Mojave Desert, in Spain near Madrid and in Australia near Canberra. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jet Propulsion Laboratory"
The John C. Stennis Space Center (or SSC), located in Hancock County, Mississippi at the Mississippi/ Louisiana border, is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. ...more on Wikipedia about "John C. Stennis Space Center"
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the NASA space vehicle launch facility ( spaceport) at Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. The site is midway between Miami and Jacksonville, Florida. It is 55 km long and around 10 km wide, covering 567 km². Around 17,000 people work at the site. There is a visitor center and public tours and KSC is a major tourist destination for visitors to Florida. Because much of KSC is off limits to development, the site also serves as an important wildlife sanctuary, with only 9% of the land developed. ...more on Wikipedia about "John F. Kennedy Space Center"
Langley Research Center (LaRC) Oldest of NASA's field centers, LaRC is located in Hampton, Virginia and directly borders Poquoson, Virginia. LaRC focuses primarily on aeronautical research, though the Lunar Lander was crash tested at this facility and a number of high profile space missions are planned and designed on site. Established in 1917 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the Center currently devotes two-thirds of its programs to aeronautics, and the rest to space. LaRC researchers use more than 40 wind tunnels to study improved aircraft and spacecraft safety, performance, and efficiency. Between 1958, when NASA started Project Mercury and 1963, LaRC served as the main office of the Man-In-Space program, with the office being transferred to the Manned Spacecraft Center (now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1962- 63). ...more on Wikipedia about "Langley Research Center"
Launch Complex 39 actually refers to LC39A and LC39B at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, USA, which are currently launch pads for the space shuttle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Launch complex 39"
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC), located in the Clear Lake area of southeast Houston, Texas, is NASA's center for human spaceflight. It was built on land donated by nearby Rice University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center"
The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is a lead NASA center for propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, external fuel tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station (ISS) design and construction, for computers, networks, and information management. The center also contains one of the Shuttle mission operation centers known as the HOSC where some mission and pre-missions operations are controlled. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marshall Space Flight Center" I wish I had a shortopedia. shortopedia
The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) is an 832 acre (3.4 km²) site owned by NASA and located in Eastern New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is used for the construction of the Space Shuttle's External tanks by its lead contractor Lockheed Martin. It is one of the largest manufacturing plants in the world with 43 acres (174,000 m²) under one roof and employs approximately 2000 people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michoud Assembly Facility"
The NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility (often abbreviated as NAS) is located at the NASA Ames Research Center, located in Moffett Field, California (near Mountain View, California). ...more on Wikipedia about "NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility"
NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) is a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, which spans the borders of the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale in California. ...more on Wikipedia about "NASA Ames Research Center"
The Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) is the hangar where NASA's Space Shuttle Orbiters undergo maintenance between flights, and where the vehicle's payloads are loaded and unloaded. There are actually three such facilities, OPF-1, OPF-2, and OPF-3, located at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. OPF-1 and OPF-2 are connected together with a low bay in between them, while OPF-3 is across the street. They are situated west of the Vehicle Assembly Building, where the orbiter is mated with its External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters before launch. ...more on Wikipedia about "Orbiter Processing Facility"
The Vehicle (originally Vertical) Assembly Building, or VAB, is a very large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, halfway between Jacksonville and Miami, and due east of Orlando on Merritt Island, on the Atlantic coast of Florida. It is one of the world's largest buildings at third place, is the largest one-storey building in the world, and was the tallest building in Florida until 1974. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vehicle Assembly Building"
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center`s Wallops Flight Facility, located on Virginia, USA, was established in 1945 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, as a center for aeronautic research. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wallops Flight Facility"
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