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NASA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight

Synonyms:

NASA; National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("NASA" is a kind of...):

independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)

Credits

 Context examples: 

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on final approach to Saturn, following confirmation by mission navigators that it is on course to dive into the planet's atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 15.

(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day, or sol (April 15, 2015), from the rover's location in Gale Crater.

(Sunset in Mars' Gale Crater, NASA)

"Dark matter is colder than we knew at smaller scales," said Anna Nierenberg of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, leader of the Hubble survey.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft detected evidence of widespread auroras in Mars's northern hemisphere.

(Auroras on Mars, NASA)

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photo on Oct. 2, 2015, from the International Space Station and wrote on Twitter, Early morning shot of Hurricane ‎Joaquin‬ from space station before reaching ‪‎Bahamas‬.

(Hurricane Joaquin From the International Space Station, NASA)

Citizen scientists scanning images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an orbiting infra-red observatory, recently stumbled upon a new class of curiosities that had gone largely unrecognized before: yellow balls.

(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)

Far in the western hemisphere, scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant “bite mark” on Pluto’s surface.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)

And new research using NASA satellite data shows that tracking vegetation from space can help wildlife managers predict when does will give birth to fawns.

(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)

A new NASA study finds the last remaining section of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf, which partially collapsed in 2002, is quickly weakening and likely to disintegrate completely before the end of the decade.

(Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf Nearing Its Final Act, NASA)