NASA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does NASA mean? 

• NASA (noun)
  The noun NASA has 1 sense:

1. an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight

  Familiarity information: NASA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NASA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

NASA; National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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)

 Context examples 

This new image of GK Persei contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (yellow), and radio data from the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (pink).

("Mini Supernova" Explosion Could Have Big Impact, NASA)

Though long hypothesized, the first evidence for a debris disk around any star was uncovered in 1983 with NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite.

(Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping the Young Star HR 4796A, NASA)

The Beagle 2 Mars Lander, built by the United Kingdom, has been thought lost on Mars since 2003, but has now been found in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

('Lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA)

NASA's Swift satellite has monitored Mrk 335 for years, and recently noted a dramatic change in its X-ray brightness.

(NuSTAR sees rare blurring of black hole light, NASA)

This is the most extreme orbit I have ever seen, said Davide Farnocchia, a scientist at NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)

New images obtained on May 16, 2016, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of Neptune.

(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)

Voyager 1, NASA's farthest and fastest spacecraft, is the only human-made object in interstellar space, the environment between the stars.

(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)

Based on a 2016 study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists speculated that lava would flow freely in lakes on the starlit side and become hardened on the face of perpetual darkness.

(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)

NASA's Dawn mission may have detected a weak, temporary atmosphere.

(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)

New image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 5307, a planetary nebula that lies about 10,000 light-years from Earth.

(Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life, ESA/NASA)