National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent United States

The NSF and NASA

In the current (and past) age of space exploration and astronomical study, it is often unclear what aspects of these fields should be handled (and funded) by the NSF, and what aspects should be in the realm of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Although both agencies want to increase our knowledge of space, the universe, and the human body, neither wants to pay more than it has to for these. At this point in time, an uneasy truce has developed, with NASA paying for space-based operations such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Chandra (an X-ray satellite telescope), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (an infrared satellite telescope), and the NSF paying for ground-based operations such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA, run by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, NRAO), and Kitt Peak (located near Tucson, AZ).

Related Topics:
Space exploration - Astronomical - National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Space - Universe - Human body - Hubble Space Telescope - Chandra - X-ray - Satellite - Telescope - Spitzer Space Telescope - Infrared - Atacama Large Millimeter Array - National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Kitt Peak

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