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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- occupation:
- Government agency
- Nationality:
- American
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration); founded 1958 as the United States govenrment's civilian space programme and aeronautics and aerospace research and science; replaced the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)