The acronym NASA that stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When NASA is mentioned, most people tend to leave out the aeronautics part of the acronym, but what those people don't realize is that NASA is involved in various projects on Earth. These missions include work on military and commercial airplanes, which have led to the developments of safer, more efficient planes. NASA has played an important role in the United States and …showed first 75 words of 2972 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2972 total…today's space agencies who seem to linger in the administration's shadow. Hopefully, with all of its future plans, NASA will be able to stick around for at least another forty years and make many more great achievements. References www.nasa.gov/ http://spacelink.nasa.gov/ http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eclipse/ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/ http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/ http://spacelink.nasa.gov/.index.html http://shuttle.nasa.gov/ http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/