Which United States department funds and operates NASA?
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It is actually funded by three different sources.\nThe goverment alots money through REDSTONE ARSENAL, near Huntsville, ALABAMA.  The department falls under military.\nThen there's BOEING and LOCKHEED, which are not related to a government agency of any kind.  However NASA and Redstone arsenal work hand and hand together.\n\nIt takes so much money to keep it afloat, the goverment alone won't do it.
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check out nasa.gov\n\nrb
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yes.the answer is in uspo.gov and espacenet
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As in up there right now..none.  A launch is set for saturday July 1 at approx 350pn EST (US).  How many are in the fleet? I would have to research the NASA site, but I think there are only 3.
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Tennessee State University has a NASA research program.
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I once heard that NASA supports a program for investigating the human brain and how to control it, as well as ESPERs. I'm not sure though.
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NASA is a government agency and is funded in large part by tax dollars.  As a result, NASA must maintain excellent PR among voters and elected officials for the sake of its funding.\n\nNASA does public outreach, raising awareness of science and math in school age children.  This is probably the goal that directly involves the largest portion of the lay public.\n\nAside from that, it starts getting more technical, yet more beneficial to mankind.  Unfortunately most of mankind doesn't understand the 'why' or 'how' involved.  They may never notice that airplanes are becoming quieter and cleaner, that our ability to predict climate is improving, that our science books are being rewritten on a yearly basis.  \n\nNASA has invested a great amount of resources in looking at the background microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang, and looking for gravitational waves that distort space-time and answer fundamental questions about our universe.  At the heart of these space missions is actual science.  Physicists at NASA won Nobel prizes for their work this year, and will probably do so again.\n\nTechnology developed by NASA has helped a wide range of companies, from communications to mattress manufacturing.  This innovation is part of what fuels the entrepreneurial spirit in this country.  It's the reason why America is still a bastion of opportunity.\n\nThe missions that NASA embarks upon involves collaboration with a huge array of private companies.  Giants like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Thiokol are all involved in building the rockets, satellites, and space systems that NASA uses.  These companies also benefit when NASA develops new technology, because it is usually they type of technology that they cannot afford to develop yet.\n\nUnfortunately, the Big Bang, gravity waves, and Mars' atmosphere matter little to the bible thumping redneck.  They demand results for their tax dollars.  The fact that their children can dream of one day travelling to Mars or working with new technology means nothing.  To them, NASA is just another example of wasteful government beauraucracy even though it gets less than 1% of the federal budget.\n\nThat is why outreach is necessary.
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Do a search for him on  www.nasa.gov
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NASA is in central Florida
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There are so many thing that NASA is doing... Here are some of them:\n\n01.19.06 - NASA Seeks Transporation Proposals \nNASA is challenging U.S. industry to create new capabilities and services that will support the Vision for Space Exploration.\n\n01.18.06 - NASA Announces Stardust Mission Briefing \nNASA announced a news conference at 11 a.m. EST (10 a.m. CST) tomorrow to discuss the comet and interstellar dust samples returned to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft.\n\n01.18.06 - NASA Awards Engineering Support Contract \nNASA has awarded a $34 million contract to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. to provide engineering development and analysis for the space shuttle and ISS.\n \n01.13.06 - ISS Status Report: SS06-002 \nExpedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev completed an important upgrade to the station's spacewalk preparation systems.\n \n01.12.06 - Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report: E06-002 \nThe launch of Pluto New Horizons is scheduled Jan. 17.\n\n------- NASA ALERTS ------\nLatest Stardust News \nNASA brings cometary and interstellar particles back to Earth.\n \nAudio Clips: Jan. 13 Expedition 13 briefing \nThe next residents of the International Space Station discussed their mission during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 12 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.\n \nNew Horizons Web and TV Coverage: Jan. 15-17 \nNASA will offer a Webcast on Jan. 15; launch coverage starts at 11 a.m. EST on Jan. 17.\n \n----- BREAKING NEWS -----\n01.19.06 - NASA Awards Scientific Support Contract \nNASA has selected SGT, Inc., Greenbelt, Md., for award of the Geophysics, Geodynamics and Space Geodesy Support contract.\n \n01.19.06 - NASA Seeks Transporation Proposals \nNASA is challenging U.S. industry to create new capabilities and services that will support the Vision for Space Exploration.\n \n\nBut if you want a real update and the complete story for that go to my source...
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my guess would be the United States Government (USG)\n\nevery person or entity is responsable for it's own actions, whether they be good or bad.
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I understand your concern.  However, I think that the space program is a relatively small expenditure in terms of the U.S. budget.  It's about expanding possibilities for the future, but I think that it would be good to give more aid to those who really need it also.
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Try this site it's really fascinating http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
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The DOD funds science
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Well, you need to contact NASA to see if they have any clue.  It's definitely more than my small brain can count and my wide eyes can see.  \nAccording to NASA's website "there have been about 4000 launches (some with multiple payloads) and my guess is that several hundred of the satellites involved are still active. Nine individual countries have launched satellites (USA, Russia, Japan, China, France, India, Israel, Australia, UK) as well as international consortia (ESA, the European Space Agency, being the most important of those). A large number of countries have enough money and could easily acquire the technology to launch satellites, but choose for economy and convenience to either have another country launch their payloads or to participate in the space projects of other nations."
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public-inquiries@hq.nasa.gov
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Something like forty-one countries around the world have agencies concerned with space (outside of the US), counting both countries with native launch capacity and those without. \n\nCheck out Wikipedia below for thirty-nine of them... it doesn't include Mexico and South Africa, both of whom recently announced the formation of space agencies.\n\nJust for the record, it is not true that "only Russia" has the ability to launch people into space besides the US (I assume that was the point being stated, anyway)...\n\n China has demonstrated their human spaceflight capability twice recently, and is continuing to develop their manned space program.