Which is the better space agency, NASA or ESA?
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I think they are both great!  They both strive for a larger understanding of life.  ESA does it with less money and politics and NASA keeps going even when they have set backs.
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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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I work at NASA and help train the astronaunts.  It's not like the movies (AKA Space Cowboys).\n\nMost astronaunts are skilled professionals with multiple degrees.  They are constantly being trained for a shuttle launch.  About 4 weeks before launch, their training increases from 30-40 per/week to up to 60 depending on EVA's and stuff.
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you can check at NASA's Internet site
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I think it is incredibly wise to spend money on space exploration for several reasons. The first reason is jobs. Thousands are employeed by NASA. These include scientists and engineers who design and conceptualize new means of travel, down to the workers who manufacture these new ships. Then the space program encourages those who study science and engineering. One element to judge a great society it the emphisis it places on technology. The Roman Empire was noted on its advancements in civil engineering and its growth of technology. Next examine the things we take for granted that developed from the space program. Think of the things we use everyday that were developed by Nasa engineers. Velcro and Microwaves come directly to mind and the personal computer was built on the foundations of NASA research. Then finally the most obvious reason is discovery. How do you put a pricetag on knowledge? The more we understand about the cosmos the more we understand about our own world.
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It totally depends on what you want to do at NASA.  Engineering, astronaut, computers, avionics.  ???   What are your interests?  Can you be more specific?
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In the 60s bij de Apollo mission control Of NASA. In the 60s they also had a kinda Mars-Pathfinder.
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NASA is well explain, all that you want. Check this site.\n\nhttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/living/index.html
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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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here is a great information resource. it is what you need to know to file an EEO compliant. \n\nhttp://eeo.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/Complaints_final.pdf
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NASA hires a lot of people all over the country. However, most of us work for contractors that work for NASA. There are more contractor jobs and they generally pay better. My wife is a secretary at the Johnson Space Center, but I have always worked for contractors like IBM and Boeing.\n\nRead the links below for more.
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u can visit www.solarsystem.nasa.gov
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In January 2004 President Bush announced his plan to send Americans back to the moon and onto Mars. Those bold goals—which NASA estimates it could achieve by 2018 and 2030, respectively—would at last free the nation of the 25-year drudgery of the shuttle program. The idea raised eyebrows--not least because of its price tag, distant target dates and suspicious initial timing, at the start of the 2004 election cycle. In the two years since, however, funding has been forthcoming and design work has begun, with aerodynamic testing on scale models under way at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. While political and fiscal obstacles could still scuttle the whole plan, the ships taking shape in the NASA labs are winning deserved raves.\n\nThe thing that has made the shuttles such lethal disappointments is that they have tried to do too many things--fly like a spacecraft, land like an airplane, haul cargo like a truck. Part of the reason the Apollo ships succeeded was that they had an exceedingly clear goal: to fly to the moon and strictly obey the laws of simplicity and safety on the way. Both ships were also wisely mounted at the top of the booster that lifted them off the ground--keeping them away from the fire and foam that killed Challenger and Columbia.\n\nThe new ships will follow the old rules. The centerpiece of the stack will be the prosaically named Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), a descendant of the Apollo command module but for a few significant differences. For one thing, it will be bigger, able to carry four astronauts comfortably and six a bit more snugly--twice the load of the three-man Apollos.\n\nFor another thing, it will be equipped with solar panels, a sensible addition in a sun-drenched place like the inner solar system--and one that reduces the demands on fuel cells and batteries. It will also be able to either splash down in the water as the Apollos did or thump down under a parachute on dry desert. Finally, modern composite materials and computers will improve on the ungainly weight and clanking brain of the older ships. "It's like comparing today's 737s with the ones that flew in 1967," says Scott Horowitz, an associate administrator for NASA. "Put them side by side, and they look alike. But they're entirely different aircraft."\n\nThe new lunar lander will be similarly improved, with updated electronics and materials. It too will be a larger ship than its predecessor, big enough to carry all four astronauts down to the surface while the mother ship idles empty in lunar orbit. That not only gets the most bang for the exploratory buck but also eliminates the lonely specter of the single astronaut who used to be left to mind the orbiter while the others went prospecting below.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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The US NASA budget for 2005 is about 17 billion dollars. That is nothing much compared to the untold billions spent on such garbage as the current Iraq war in terms of return on investment.
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Not soon enough.\nSince there is no Super-power race for space dominance, it comes down to "will it make a profit".  So, when some industry or company decides they can make a few million bucks, it'll happen.  Until then, don't go looking for tickets for the moon shuttle.
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NASA's entire budget is only 2 Billion--tiny compared to the 8 Trillion dollar national debt. The benefits have been huge--check out the attached links of search for "benefits of space program".