11. NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the most well-known space agency established on \(October\ 1,\ 1958\), with headquarters in Washington DC. It has ten field centres that play an important role in carrying out NASA's mission.

 

 

NASA is a supporter of the International Space Station (ISS), an international space exploration collaboration. The space agency has sent rovers to Mars, studied Jupiter's atmosphere, and investigated Saturn and Mercury.

 

 

NASA learned more about space flight through the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. All the planets in the solar system have been visited by NASA's robotic space probes. NASA's satellites have uncovered many data about the Earth, resulting in useful knowledge on its weather patterns. From smoke alarms to medical tests, NASA's technology has helped to create significant products used in daily life.

The most well-known NASA missions are the Apollo missions since they made the American astronauts walk on the Moon. There are \(17\) missions totally out of which Apollo-8 and Apollo-11 are particularly noteworthy.

 

 

The first manned mission to the Moon was Apollo-8, which returned to Earth after orbiting the Moon. The first 'Man Landing Mission' to the moon was Apollo-11.

 

NASA and ISRO have agreed to collaborate on the launch of the NISAR satellite (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) and Mars Exploration Missions.