NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is a branch of the United States federal government whose aim is to pioneer advances in human spaceflight, aeronautics, space science and space applications. NASA has been responsible for missions such as Apollo, the Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Juno: Mission at Jupiter, Kepler Spacecraft and Voyager. From lunar landings to exploring the Universe over 17 billion km away, NASA has broadened our understanding of space and our own planet.

Race to Venus: What we'll discover on Earth's toxic twin ©

Race to Venus What we'll discover on Earth's toxic twin

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Apollo programme © NASA

Q&A special Everything you ever wanted to know about the Apollo programme

Engineer locates debris from India’s crashed Moon lander in NASA images © AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File

Engineer locates debris from India’s crashed Moon lander in NASA images

NASA 'pallet lander concept' could be coming to a Moon near you soon © NASA/PA

NASA ‘pallet lander concept’ could be coming to a Moon near you soon

New Horizons returns sharp images of Ultima Thule © NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Ultima Thule Minor planet given official name 'Arrokoth'

NASA's InSight digging into Mars after 7-month setback © NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP

NASA’s InSight digging into Mars after 7-month setback

Christina Koch, right, and, Jessica Meir pose on the ISS (Nasa)

First all-female spacewalk finally confirmed for this afternoon

New NASA spacesuit revealed in preparation for return to the Moon (Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), is seen during a demonstration of the suit, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The xEMU suit improves on the suits previous worn on the Moon during the Apollo era and those currently in use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station and will be worn by first woman and next man as they explore the Moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program © NASA/Joel Kowsky)

New NASA spacesuit revealed in preparation for return to the Moon

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Quindar tones, CAPCOM and Cassini 10 NASA sounds that’ll whisk you off into space

Space exploration: how might the next 50 years progress? © Mitchell Stuart

Space exploration Where will we be in 50 years?

Mission into the Sun © Andy Potts

How the Parker Solar Probe will ‘touch the Sun’

Who will be next to land on the Moon? © ESA

Who will be next to land on the Moon?

Who Was Tecwyn Roberts, NASA’s Unknown Welsh Hero? © NASA

History Extra Who was Tecwyn Roberts, NASA’s unknown Welsh hero?

Apollo 11 Space Mission: Seconds from disaster (Tensions ran high in mission control during the moments before Eagle landed on the Moon. From left capcom Charlie Duke, back-up commander Jim Lovell and back-up lunar module pilot Fred Haise © NASA/JPL)

Apollo 11 Space Mission Seconds from disaster

NASA to send a drone to explore Saturn's biggest moon © NASA

NASA to send a drone to explore Saturn’s biggest moon