NASA and its contribution

NASA (National Aeronautics and the Space Administration) is a United States Government agency which is responsible for the science and the technology which is related to the air and to the space. NASA was formed on 29^th July 1958.NASA overcame the NACA (National Advisory Committee for the Aeronautics) and the new agency came into existence on 1^stOctober 1958. The head quarters of the NASA are located in the Washington. THE agency of the NASA has nine centres, seven test and they also have the research facilities. There are many people who work for the NASA as the government contractors and the people who are hired by the companies then the NASA pays the officers. NASA has begun the programme of the human spaceflight which has received a heart warming welcome from all over the world. The employees of the NASA (National Aeronautics and the Space Administration) are around 17,000. The administrator and the associate administrator of the NASA is Robert M. Lightfoot and the Deputy Associate Administrator of the NASA is Krista Paquin. The Official Website of the NASA is as follows: “nasa.gov”. The Administrator of the NASA is being appointed by the president of the NASA and it is being confirmed by voting in the Senate. The President of the NASA Dwight D. Einsenhower who started the NASA and his main motive of starting NASA were to prod the serene applications in the space science. NASA’s science emphasises on the better understanding of the Earth through the earth Observing System. NASA is starting a new programme in which they are trying to send the humans to go beyond the moon to the Mars and they also have started their work. NASA’s Education Office helps the teachers to prepare the students for their respective fields like engineers, scientists, doctors, astronauts and other NASA officers for the future of the NASA. NASA encourages the students and all the novice trainers to take part in the NASA and build a strong foundation for the NASA. The NASA had started few programmes such as the Mercury, Gemini and the Apollo and these programme helped the NASA to learn about the flying in the space and due to these programme there was the first human landing on the moon in the year of the 1969. The NASA’s robotic pace probes have visited each and every planet which i present in the solar system and they also have visited several other celestial bodies which is a remarkable achievement for the NASA (National Aeronautics and the Pace Administration). The telescopes have also allowed the scientists to look at the far reaches of the space. NASA also has helped to develop a variety of the cutting edge aircraft and they successfully have tested all the aircrafts and these aircrafts seem to be very much efficient. These aircraft includes the planes that have et various new records. These planes have helped the engineers a lot by improving the air transportation.

NASA has contributed to a lot to the Herschel Space Observatory. Herschel is a European Space Mission which has a significant participation from the NASA (National Aeronautics and the Space Administration). NASA has played a key role in the development of their two missions’ instruments which were SPIRE and HIFI. SPIRE (Spectral and the Photometric Imaging Receiver) uses the “spider web bolometer” and this spider web bolometer are more than 40 times sensitive than the composite bolometer.  The SPIRE was developed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) by the scientist Dr. James Bock who is the SPIRE’s Co-Investigator. The Dr. James Bock received the Presidential Career Award for the Scientists and the Engineer in the March 2002. HIFI (Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared) senses the radiation along the six wavelength bands. NASA is also providing the mixers and the local oscillator chains for the highest band, and the local oscillator components for the other four bands and the power amplifiers. The NASA’s (National Aeronautics and the Space Administration) Herschel Science Centre which is a part of the Infrared Processing and of the Analysis Centre at the California Institute of the Technology has also contributed to the science planning and also to the data analysis software which is quite amazing and unbelievable for the NASA.  Before 1990 the view of the space came from the ground based light telescope and the work of launching Hubble Space telescope got started in the year of the 1975 and finally the scientists launched Hubble. The Scientists spent about 8 years to assemble and test the telescope’s 400,000 parts and 26,000 miles of the wiring. In the year of the 1999 NASA successfully launched the most sensitive X-ray telescope n the world. The X-ray telescopes are a lot of different than the light telescope and this invention of the X-ray was named as the Chandra X-ray. Before 1972 there was not a single manmade object which had made it to an outer planet. In 1972 the NASA (National Aeronautics and the Space Administration) launched the Pioneer 10. The Pioneer 10 which was launched got passed through the asteroid belt between the Earth and the Jupiter. Apollo 13 was launched on the 11^th of the April in the year of the 1970 and it was headed for the moon and this mission proved to be a topsy turvy bit because after fifty five hours and fifty five minutes an explosion occurred and almost everything was devastated but somehow the engineer and the scientists pulled out a blinder by overcoming the Apollo 13. In the year of 1996 to the year of 1997 the NASA launched Pathfinder on the Mars planet and they also launched a robot on the Red Planet. In the year of the 1961 in which the NASA launched Freedom 7 which was the first American in the Space.  NASA launched Apollo 11 through which they were able to walk on the moon in the year of the 1969. The NASA is also making key contributions to the data and to the science analysis. NASA technology has contributed to the many items from the smoke detector to the medical tests.