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If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.
A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.
There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.
Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.
The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community.
The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.
I thought that NASA didn't take biologists and so nothing would come of it. But I knew I would regret it if I did not apply.
NSS has strongly supported competition in both the NASA Commercial Re-supply Services program and the Commercial Crew program.
Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the '60s. It's old.
The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.
In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral.
With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.
At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed.
When I got to college, I discovered how many incredible opportunities NASA offered students pursuing a career in the space industry.
In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!
The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
Obviously I'd like NASA to follow their charter - the exploration of our solar system and beyond. I'd like to see people someday go to Mars.
The fact is this: NASA was desegregated by a white male. NASA was not desegregated by a black male. NASA was not desegregated by white women.
In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
NASA's charter is to give Americans the means to get into the wild, black yonder, beyond even the grasp of the federal government that funded it.
To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.
What we did is we used NASA topography data to map out the landscape, very subtle changes. We started to be able to see where the Nile used to flow.
Cutting NASA education funds would most severely affect students from low- to middle-income families and students from non-Ivy League-level schools.
I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.
They used to time our elementary fire drills so we could watch the launches. I thought that was normal. I thought every kid watched every NASA launch.
I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.
Asteroid detection, tracking, and defense of our planet is something that NASA, its interagency partners, and the global community take very seriously.
The NRO is like a secret twin to NASA. It's the U.S.' 'other' space agency. The agency is about as old as NASA, but its existence was secret until 1992.
Are governments the only entities that can build human spacecraft? No - actually, every human spacecraft ever built for NASA was built by private industry.
I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.
It is only by freeing NASA from routine human transport to low-Earth orbit that we can afford to once again see American astronauts exploring distant worlds.
If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese and the Europeans and the Japanese.
Our country... invests a tiny fraction of 1 percent in NASA, and this is what's so amazing to me, is with that small investment, we do so much for the country.
And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
I do a lot of work with NASA and am involved in research projects studying planetary evolution, Earth-like planets, and potential conditions for life elsewhere.
If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.