NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which was established in 1958, is the agency responsible for the public space program of the United States of America. It is also responsible for long-term civilian and military aerospace research.

Field installations

In addition to headquarters in Washington, D.C., NASA has field installations at:

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• Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
• Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California
• John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, Cleveland, Ohio
• Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
• Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York
• Independent Verification and Validation Facility, Fairmont, West Virginia
• Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, near Pasadena, California
• Deep Space Network stations:
• Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, Barstow, California
• Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex, Madrid, Spain
• Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
• Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
• White Sands Test Facility, Las Cruces, New Mexico
• John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida
• Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
• George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama
• Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Louisiana
• John C. Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi