About NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is America’s civil space program and the global leader in space exploration. The agency has a diverse workforce of just under 18,000 civil servants, and works with many more U.S. contractors, academia, and international and commercial partners to explore, discover, and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity. With an annual budget of $23.2 billion in Fiscal Year 2021, which is less than 0.5% of the overall U.S. federal budget, NASA supports more than 312,000 jobs across the United States, generating more than $64.3 billion in total economic output (Fiscal Year 2019).

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History Of NASA

NASA was created largely in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik in 1957. It was organized around the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which had been created by Congress in 1915. NASA’s organization was well under way by the early years of Pres. John F. Kennedy’s administration when he proposed that the United States put a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s. To that end, the Apollo program was designed, and in 1969 the U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person on the Moon.Later, uncrewed programs—such as Viking, Mariner, Voyager, and Galileo—explored other bodies of the solar system.

Rockets Of NASA

Here are some of the famous rockets in the world made by NASA

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NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency.”


― Bill Nye

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    SLS (Space Launch System)

    NASA’s Space Launch System will be the most powerful rocket we’ve ever built. When completed, SLS will enable astronauts to begin their journey to explore destinations far into the solar system.It replaced the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles, which were cancelled along with the rest of the Constellation program.

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    Saturn V

    The Saturn V was a rocket NASA built to send people to the moon. A Heavy Lift Vehicle, it was the most powerful rocket that had ever flown successfully.The Saturn V was used in the Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s and was also used to launch the Skylab space station.The Saturn V rocket was 363 feet tall, about the height of a 36-story building, and 60 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty.

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    Space Shuttle

    The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development

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Pioneer Mission

Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, launched in 1972 and 1973,respectively, were the first spacecraft to visit the solar system's mostphotogenic gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn. Pioneer 10 was the first probe totravel through the solar system's asteroid belt, a field of orbiting rocksbetween Mars and Jupiter. Then about a year-and-a-half after its launch, thespacecraft made the first flyby of the planet Jupiter. It took stunningup-close photos of the Great Red Spot and the wide swaths of red that band theplanet. About a year later, Pioneer 11 flew by Jupiter, and then moved on toSaturn, where it discovered a couple of previously unknown small moons aroundthe planet, and a new ring.

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Hubble Telescope Mission

The most-loved of all NASA spacecraft, the Hubble SpaceTelescope has name recognition around the world. Its photos have changed theway everyday people figure themselves into the cosmos. The observatory has alsoradically changedscience, making breakthroughs on astronomical issues too numerous to count.By finally sending up an optical telescope to peer at the sky from beyondEarth's turbulent atmosphere, NASA developed a tool that could reveal stars,planets, nebulae and galaxies in all their fully-detailed glory. Hubble's orbit outside the distortion of atmosphere of Earth allows it to capture extremely high-resolution images with substantially lower background light than ground-based telescopes.

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Apollo Mission

NASA's best space science mission? The one humans got totag along on, of course! Not only was sending a man to the moon monumental forhuman history, but the Apollo trips were the first to bring celestial stuffback to Earth and greatly advanced our scientificunderstanding of the moon. Before Apollo, many people weren't evenconvinced the moon wasn't made out of cheese (well? non-scientists at least).By studying the moon up close and personal, and then carting? loads of moonrocks home, the Apollo astronauts gathered data that helped us learn how oldthe moon is, what it's made out of, and even how it might have begun.

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Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover

Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission forming part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program that includes the rover Perseverance and the small robotic, coaxial helicopter Ingenuity. Mars 2020 was launched from Earth on an Atlas V launch vehicle on 30 July 2020,and confirmation of touch down in the Martian crater Jezero was received on 18 February 2021. Perseverance will investigate an astrobiologically relevant ancient environment on Mars and investigate its surface geological processes and history, including the assessment of its past habitability, the possibility of past life on Mars, and the potential for preservation of biosignatures within accessible geological materials.

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Artemis Mission- 2024

With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. They will collaborate with commercial and international partners and establish the first long-term presence on the Moon. Then, they will use what we learn on and around the Moon to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars. They’re going back to the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and inspiration for a new generation of explorers: the Artemis Generation. While maintaining American leadership in exploration, they will build a global alliance and explore deep space for the benefit of all.