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29th November' 2025

Dear,
Mr. G M Khaled Ahmed
Chief of Receiver (ITC)
R-NBP No.: SCN-TP (51)000T01

We would like to inform you with gratitude that we received your $12,700.00 on 24.11.2025. Since this money was claimed from you for service charges, you have duly fulfilled the responsibility assigned to you. As per the previous decision of the authorities, a decision will be taken to provide you with the amount of $ 5 million and the locker you requested on 10.12.2025. Which will reach you in your favor between 15 and 20 December 2025 against trade code no: BEIC.0108.CRPM.1818-07/Bengal You will be informed about this by message and web page by 10 December 2025.

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Brian Hughes
Chief of Staff
Washington DC, USA
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7th November' 2025

Dear,
Mr. G M Khaled Ahmed
Chief of Receiver (ITC)
R-NBP No.: SCN-TP (51)000T01

As per we received your mail & gratefully accept the decision for your tax-free fund and locker application. We have considered the overall situation and based on your e-mail, so we have made a stablished decision for you. Hope you accept our decision wholeheartedly. Hope you accept our decision wholeheartedly. As you have expressed your inability to pay 3% tax against $ 5 million dollars, so the company authorities have come to the conclusion that no tax is payable from your end. The whole transaction is fully tax-free for your BEIC asset.

But the authorities need a cost to send $ 5 million dollars and locker against you, so you pay only $ 12,700.00 service charge to the company and get your locker and $ 5 million dollar within next 10 working days against trade code no: BEIC.0108.CRPM.1818-07/Bengal. In this regard, the company authorities will give you full support & the company's appointed consultant will assist you in all kinds of ways. You will have time until 10.12.2025 to complete this task. The authorities request you to complete the task with patience.

All the best, wish your future is well.

Thanks-

Brian Hughes Chief of Staff NASA, W-DC, USA

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22nd October' 2025

Dear Reliable Receiver’s,

We glad to know to you that we have received a letter of fund and locker transfer on 22nd Oct 2025. The authorities have decided to resolve the matter as per your needs. You need to know that a financial institution of one country is provided in another country to pay 15% tax deduction. The amount of the money you want is only $ 5.00 million, which is very low. However, you can accept this money in two ways- (a) The company authorities have agreed to pay 12% tax against the desired money, with the amount of $ 6,00,000.00 dollars, the remaining 3% tax, ie $ 1,50,000.00 dollars tax will be pay by you on your Central Bank. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to withdraw the fund. If you accept this decision, we will send your fund and locker to your central bank within the next 7 business days. Whatever you will discuss with your consultant freely.

If you want to receive the fund for tax free transaction, pls negotiate with your authorities by e-mail: brianhughes.nasa@gmail.com. But the condition is that to withdraw your fund, the article must be Locker and the n.o.c. needed & providing a 1 minute video clip (at the time of locker). It is mentioned that all the next transaction after locker will not need to pay any type of tax (all fund is tax free). You will be able to accept 75% fund of the total article price to receive in Bangladesh, we hope your decision will inspire us.

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Brian Hughes
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NASA, W-DC, USA



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13th Oct.' 2025

Dear Reliable Person's,

We inform you that the company is ready to provide all kinds of assistance regarding your Article. You are currently a respected and reliable person in the company. After verifying all the information you have provided and finding it to be true, the company authorities have no objection to paying money in your favor. The authorities will send a locker for the maintenance of the article along with paying money in your favor for Trade No: BEIC.0108.CRPM.1818-07/Bengal. For this, you will have to send an application to the company. You must provide the signature and fingerprint of the owner of the assets, along with the signature of your consultant, and send it to the Head Office, USA within 10 working days (a fee of $ 527 has been charged). The company will send the money and locker in your favor within the next 7 working days. It should be remembered that the company will never pay less than $ 5.00 million, which will also apply to you. You can get all information in this trade page.

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11th Oct.' 2025

Dear Representative,

We are very happy to inform you that in the context of your application and information receive on 07/10/2025, you are will be able to make all communication & transactions with us and as a local representative of Bangladesh till the next 06/10/2027. We believe that you will fulfill all the duties as honesty and devotion with the Article Owner. You Mr. G M Khaled Ahmed are reliable local representative of Bangladesh from NASA. Your ITC is: NCIOW-0420902/25. We will send you a further notification within 72 hours.

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Md. Suman Hossain 

Chief Owner

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Product Owner: Md. Suman Hossain
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NASA’s New Chief of Staff

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
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Keith’s note: Looks like @NASA has a new Chief of Staff: Brian Hughes from Jacksonville, FL. LinkedIn profile – @BrianHughes47 and @BrianHughes

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA /ˈnæsə/) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States' civil space programaeronautics research and space research. Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the US space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project MercuryProject Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program, and oversees the development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the lunar Artemis program.

NASA's science division is focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing System; advancing heliophysics through the efforts of the Science Mission Directorate's Heliophysics Research Program; exploring bodies throughout the Solar System with advanced robotic spacecraft such as New Horizons and planetary rovers such as Perseverance; and researching astrophysics topics, such as the Big Bang, through the James Webb Space Telescope, the four Great Observatories, and associated programs. The Launch Services Program oversees launch operations for its uncrewed launches.


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NASA New Adventure Program:



Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington, D.C.

Agency overview

Abbreviation

NASA

Formed

July 29, 1958; 66 years ago

Preceding agency

·     National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1915–1958)[1]

Type

Space agency
Aeronautics research agency

Jurisdiction

United States Federal Government

Headquarters

Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters
Washington, D.C.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/WMA_button2b.png/17px-WMA_button2b.png38°52′59″N 77°0′59″W

Administrator

Janet Petro (acting)

Deputy Administrator

Vacant

Primary spaceports

·         Kennedy Space Center

·         Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

·         Vandenberg Space Force Base

·         Wallops Flight Facility

Employees

17,960 (2022)[2]

Annual budget

IncreaseUS$2.25.525.4 billion (2023)[3]

Website

nasa.gov

Part of a series on the

United States space program

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/NASA_logo.svg/90px-NASA_logo.svg.pnghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Seal_of_the_United_States_Space_Force.svg/90px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Space_Force.svg.png

Human spaceflight programs

Robotic spaceflight programs

NASA Astronaut Corps

Spaceports

Space launch vehicles

National security space

Civil space

Commercial space industry

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA /ˈnæsə/) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States' civil space programaeronautics research and space research. Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the US space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project MercuryProject Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program, and oversees the development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the lunar Artemis program.

NASA's science division is focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing System; advancing heliophysics through the efforts of the Science Mission Directorate's Heliophysics Research Program; exploring bodies throughout the Solar System with advanced robotic spacecraft such as New Horizons and planetary rovers such as Perseverance; and researching astrophysics topics, such as the Big Bang, through the James Webb Space Telescope, the four Great Observatories, and associated programs. The Launch Services Program oversees launch operations for its uncrewed launches.

History

Creation

Main articles: Creation of NASA and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Bell_X-1A_in_flight.jpg/220px-Bell_X-1A_in_flight.jpgA US Air Force Bell X-1 test flight

NASA traces its roots to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Despite being the birthplace of aviation, by 1914 the United States recognized that it was far behind Europe in aviation capability. Determined to regain American leadership in aviation, the United States Congress created the Aviation Section of the US Army Signal Corps in 1914 and established NACA in 1915 to foster aeronautical research and development. Over the next forty years, NACA would conduct aeronautical research in support of the US Air ForceUS ArmyUS Navy, and the civil aviation sector. After the end of World War II, NACA became interested in the possibilities of guided missiles and supersonic aircraft, developing and testing the Bell X-1 in a joint program with the US Air Force. NACA's interest in space grew out of its rocketry program at the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division.[4]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Launch_of_Jupiter_C_with_Explorer_1.jpg/220px-Launch_of_Jupiter_C_with_Explorer_1.jpgLaunch of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency's Explorer 1, America's first satellite

The Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1 ushered in the Space Age and kicked off the Space Race. Despite NACA's early rocketry program, the responsibility for launching the first American satellite fell to the Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard, whose operational issues ensured the Army Ballistic Missile Agency would launch Explorer 1, America's first satellite, on February 1, 1958.

The Eisenhower Administration decided to split the United States' military and civil spaceflight programs, which were organized together under the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency. NASA was established on July 29, 1958, with the signing of the National Aeronautics and Space Act and it began operations on October 1, 1958.[4]

As the US's premier aeronautics agency, NACA formed the core of NASA's new structure by reassigning 8,000 employees and three major research laboratories. NASA also proceeded to absorb the Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard, the Army's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the Army Ballistic Missile Agency under Wernher von Braun. This left NASA firmly as the United States' civil space lead and the Air Force as the military space lead.[4]

First orbital and hypersonic flights

Main article: Project Mercury

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Launch_of_Friendship_7_-_GPN-2000-000686.jpg/220px-Launch_of_Friendship_7_-_GPN-2000-000686.jpgLaunch of Friendship 7, NASA's first orbital flight, February 20, 1962

Plans for human spaceflight began in the US Armed Forces prior to NASA's creation. The Air Force's Man in Space Soonest project formed in 1956,[5] coupled with the Army's Project Adam, served as the foundation for Project Mercury. NASA established the Space Task Group to manage the program,[6] which would conduct crewed sub-orbital flights with the Army's Redstone rockets and orbital flights with the Air Force's Atlas launch vehicles. While NASA intended for its first astronauts to be civilians, President Eisenhower directed that they be selected from the military. The Mercury 7 astronauts included three Air Force pilots, three Navy aviators, and one Marine Corps pilot.[4]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/X-15_flying.jpg/220px-X-15_flying.jpgThe NASA-Air Force X-15 hypersonic aircraft

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to enter space, performing a suborbital spaceflight in the Freedom 7.[7] This flight occurred less than a month after the Soviet Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, executing a full orbital spaceflight. NASA's first orbital spaceflight was conducted by John Glenn on February 20, 1962, in the Friendship 7, making three full orbits before reentering. Glenn had to fly parts of his final two orbits manually due to an autopilot malfunction.[8] The sixth and final Mercury mission was flown by Gordon Cooper in May 1963, performing 22 orbits over 34 hours in the Faith 7.[9] The Mercury Program was wildly recognized as a resounding success, achieving its objectives to orbit a human in space, develop tracking and control systems, and identify other issues associated with human spaceflight.[4]

While much of NASA's attention turned to space, it did not put aside its aeronautics mission. Early aeronautics research attempted to build upon the X-1's supersonic flight to build an aircraft capable of hypersonic flight. The North American X-15 was a joint NASA–US Air Force program,[10] with the hypersonic test aircraft becoming the first non-dedicated spacecraft to cross from the atmosphere to outer space. The X-15 also served as a testbed for Apollo program technologies, as well as ramjet and scramjet propulsion.[4]

Moon landing

Main articles: Project Gemini and Apollo program

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/S65-63188.jpg/220px-S65-63188.jpgGemini 6 and Gemini 7 conduct an orbital rendezvous

Escalations in the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union prompted President John F. Kennedy to charge NASA with landing an American on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth by the end of the 1960s and installed James E. Webb as NASA administrator to achieve this goal.[11] On May 25, 1961, President Kennedy openly declared this goal in his "Urgent National Needs" speech to the United States Congress, declaring:

I believe this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.

Kennedy gave his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech the next year, on September 12, 1962 at Rice University, where he addressed the nation hoping to reinforce public support for the Apollo program.[12]

Despite attacks on the goal of landing astronauts on the Moon from the former president Dwight Eisenhower and 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, President Kennedy was able to protect NASA's growing budget, of which 50% went directly to human spaceflight and it was later estimated that, at its height, 5% of Americans worked on some aspect of the Apollo program.[4]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Apollo_11_Launch_-_GPN-2000-000630.jpg/220px-Apollo_11_Launch_-_GPN-2000-000630.jpgLaunch of Apollo 11

Mirroring the Department of Defense's program management concept using redundant systems in building the first intercontinental ballistic missiles, NASA requested the Air Force assign Major General Samuel C. Phillips to the space agency where he would serve as the director of the Apollo program. Development of the Saturn V rocket was led by Wernher von Braun and his team at the Marshall Space Flight Center, derived from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency's original Saturn I. The Apollo spacecraft was designed and built by North American Aviation, while the Apollo Lunar Module was designed and built by Grumman.[4]

To develop the spaceflight skills and equipment required for a lunar mission, NASA initiated Project Gemini.[13] Using a modified Air Force Titan II launch vehicle, the Gemini capsule could hold two astronauts for flights of over two weeks. Gemini pioneered the use of fuel cells instead of batteries, and conducted the first American spacewalks and rendezvous operations.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Buzz_salutes_the_U.S._Flag.jpg/220px-Buzz_salutes_the_U.S._Flag.jpgBuzz Aldrin salutes the United States flag on the lunar surface.

The Ranger Program was started in the 1950s as a response to Soviet lunar exploration, however most missions ended in failure. The Lunar Orbiter program had greater success, mapping the surface in preparation for Apollo landings, conducting meteoroid detection, and measuring radiation levels. The Surveyor program conducted uncrewed lunar landings and takeoffs, as well as taking surface and regolith observations.[4] Despite the setback caused by the Apollo 1 fire, which killed three astronauts, the program proceeded.

Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times on December 24 and 25, 1968, and then traveled safely back to Earth.[14][15][16] The three Apollo 8 astronauts—Frank BormanJames Lovell, and William Anders—were the first humans to see the Earth as a globe in space, the first to witness an Earthrise, and the first to see and manually photograph the far side of the Moon.

The first lunar landing was conducted by Apollo 11. Commanded by Neil Armstrong with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, Apollo 11 was one of the most significant missions in NASA's history, marking the end of the Space Race when the Soviet Union gave up its lunar ambitions. As the first human to step on the surface of the Moon, Neil Armstrong uttered the now famous words:

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

NASA would conduct six total lunar landings as part of the Apollo program, with Apollo 17 concluding the program in 1972.[4]

End of Apollo

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Apollo_CSM_lunar_orbit.jpg/220px-Apollo_CSM_lunar_orbit.jpgApollo 15 CSM Endeavour in lunar orbit

Wernher von Braun had advocated for NASA to develop a space station since the agency was created. In 1973, following the end of the Apollo lunar missions, NASA launched its first space station, Skylab, on the final launch of the Saturn V. Skylab reused a significant amount of Apollo and Saturn hardware, with a repurposed Saturn V third stage serving as the primary module for the space station. Damage to Skylab during its launch required spacewalks to be performed by the first crew to make it habitable and operational. Skylab hosted nine missions and was decommissioned in 1974 and deorbited in 1979, two years prior to the first launch of the Space Shuttle and any possibility of boosting its orbit.[4]

In 1975, the Apollo–Soyuz mission was the first ever international spaceflight and a major diplomatic accomplishment between the Cold War rivals, which also marked the last flight of the Apollo capsule.[4] Flown in 1975, a US Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule.

Interplanetary exploration and space science

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Viking2lander1.jpg/220px-Viking2lander1.jpgImage from Mars taken by the Viking 2 lander.

During the 1960s, NASA started its space science and interplanetary probe program. The Mariner program was its flagship program, launching probes to VenusMars, and Mercury in the 1960s.[17][18] The Jet Propulsion Laboratory was the lead NASA center for robotic interplanetary exploration, making significant discoveries about the inner planets. Despite these successes, Congress was unwilling to fund further interplanetary missions and NASA Administrator James Webb suspended all future interplanetary probes to focus resources on the Apollo program.[4]

Following the conclusion of the Apollo program, NASA resumed launching interplanetary probes and expanded its space science program. The first planet tagged for exploration was Venus, sharing many similar characteristics to Earth. First visited by American Mariner 2 spacecraft,[19] Venus was observed to be a hot and inhospitable planet. Follow-on missions included the Pioneer Venus project in the 1970s and Magellan, which performed radar mapping of Venus' surface in the 1980s and 1990s. Future missions were flybys of Venus, on their way to other destinations in the Solar System.[4]

Mars has long been a planet of intense fascination for NASA, being suspected of potentially having harbored life. Mariner 5 was the first NASA spacecraft to flyby Mars,[20] followed by Mariner 6 and Mariner 7Mariner 9 was the first orbital mission to Mars. Launched in 1975, Viking program consisted of two landings on Mars in 1976. Follow-on missions would not be launched until 1996, with the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter and Mars Pathfinder, deploying the first Mars rover, Sojourner.[21] During the early 2000s, the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter reached the planet and in 2004 the Sprit and Opportunity rovers landed on the Red Planet. This was followed in 2005 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and 2007 Phoenix Mars lander. The 2012 landing of Curiosity discovered that the radiation levels on Mars were equal to those on the International Space Station, greatly increasing the possibility of Human exploration, and observed the key chemical ingredients for life to occur. In 2013, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission observed the Martian upper atmosphere and space environment and in 2018, the Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) studied the Martian interior. The 2021 Perseverance rover carried the first extraplanetary aircraft, a helicopter named Ingenuity.[4]

NASA also launched missions to Mercury in 2004, with the MESSENGER probe demonstrating as the first use of a solar sail.[22] NASA also launched probes to the outer Solar System starting in the 1960s. Pioneer 10 was the first probe to the outer planets, flying by Jupiter, while Pioneer 11 provided the first close up view of the planet. Both probes became the first objects to leave the Solar System. The Voyager program launched in 1977, conducting flybys of Jupiter and SaturnNeptune, and Uranus on a trajectory to leave the Solar System.[23] The Galileo spacecraft, deployed from the Space Shuttle flight STS-34, was the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, discovering evidence of subsurface oceans on the Europa and observed that the moon may hold ice or liquid water.[24] A joint NASA-European Space Agency-Italian Space Agency mission, Cassini–Huygens, was sent to Saturn's moon Titan, which, along with Mars and Europa, are the only celestial bodies in the Solar System suspected of being capable of harboring life.[25] Cassini discovered three new moons of Saturn and the Huygens probe entered Titan's atmosphere. The mission discovered evidence of liquid hydrocarbon lakes on Titan and subsurface water oceans on the moon of Enceladus, which could harbor life. Finally launched in 2006, the New Horizons mission was the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.[4]

Beyond interplanetary probes, NASA has launched many space telescopes. Launched in the 1960s, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory were NASA's first orbital telescopes,[26] providing ultraviolet, gamma-ray, x-ray, and infrared observations. NASA launched the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory in the 1960s and 1970s to look down at Earth and observe its interactions with the Sun. The Uhuru satellite was the first dedicated x-ray telescope, mapping 85% of the sky and discovering a large number of black holes.[4]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/View_of_Hubble_after_Being_Released_from_the_Shuttle_Atlantis_%2828045752710%29.jpg/220px-View_of_Hubble_after_Being_Released_from_the_Shuttle_Atlantis_%2828045752710%29.jpgThe Hubble Space Telescope in Low Earth Orbit

Launched in the 1990s and early 2000s, the Great Observatories program are among NASA's most powerful telescopes. The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 on STS-31 from the Discovery and could view galaxies 15 billion light years away.[27] A major defect in the telescope's mirror could have crippled the program, had NASA not used computer enhancement to compensate for the imperfection and launched five Space Shuttle servicing flights to replace the damaged components. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory was launched from the Atlantis on STS-37 in 1991, discovering a possible source of antimatter at the center of the Milky Way and observing that the majority of gamma-ray bursts occur outside of the Milky Way galaxy. The Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched from the Columbia on STS-93 in 1999, observing black holes, quasarssupernova, and dark matter. It provided critical observations on the Sagittarius A* black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy and the separation of dark and regular matter during galactic collisions. Finally, the Spitzer Space Telescope is an infrared telescope launched in 2003 from a Delta II rocket. It is in a trailing orbit around the Sun, following the Earth and discovered the existence of brown dwarf stars.[4]

Other telescopes, such as the Cosmic Background Explorer and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, provided evidence to support the Big Bang.[28] The James Webb Space Telescope, named after the NASA administrator who lead the Apollo program, is an infrared observatory launched in 2021. The James Webb Space Telescope is a direct successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, intended to observe the formation of the first galaxies.[29] Other space telescopes include the Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009 to identify planets orbiting extrasolar stars that may be Terran and possibly harbor life. The first exoplanet that the Keplar space telescope confirmed was Kepler-22b, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star.[4]

NASA also launched a number of different satellites to study Earth, such as Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) in 1960, which was the first weather satellite.[30] NASA and the United States Weather Bureau cooperated on future TIROS and the second generation Nimbus program of weather satellites. It also worked with the Environmental Science Services Administration on a series of weather satellites and the agency launched its experimental Applications Technology Satellites into geosynchronous orbit. NASA's first dedicated Earth observation satellite, Landsat, was launched in 1972. This led to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration jointly developing the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite and discovering Ozone depletion.[4]


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