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NASA's first administrator, T. Keith Glennan, realized that the growth of the U.S. space program would cause the STG to outgrow the Langley and Goddard centers and require its own location. On January 1, 1961, he wrote a memo to his yet-unnamed successor (who turned out to be James E. Webb ), recommending a new site be chosen. [ 3 ]
Associate Administrator, NASA (2016-2022) [1] Thomas Hansueli Zurbuchen (born 1968) is a Swiss-American astrophysicist . From October 2016 [ 2 ] until the end of 2022, he was the longest continually running Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA .
NASA has used or supported various observatories and telescopes, and an example of this is the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. In 2013 a NASA Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) Report recommended a Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) style organization to consolidate NASA's little used facilities. [3]
NASA astronomers and astrophysicists. Pages in category "NASA astrophysicists" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
NASA astrophysicists (50 P) Pages in category "American astrophysicists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 303 total.
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is a NASA program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon.Most landing sites are near the lunar south pole [1] [2] where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar science to support the Artemis lunar program.
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In the late 1980s NASA began to consider replacing its previous neutral-buoyancy training facility, the Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF). The WETF, located at Johnson Space Center, had been successfully used to train astronauts for numerous missions, but its pool was too small to hold useful mock-ups of space station components of the sorts intended for the mooted Space Station ...