United States Space Agencies and Institutes

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the U.S.

The United States Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense and a member of the U.S.

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency that was founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research.

The constellation provides data to the United Nations, NASA, the UK Space Agency, and the European Space Agency, as well as to private companies.

Its corporate offices in Mississauga, Ontario, Magellan operates in facilities throughout Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The company had branches and offices in Ottawa, the United States, the United Kingdom, China and India.

The United States Space Command (USSPACECOM or SPACECOM) is a unified combatant command of the United States Department of Defense, responsible for military operations in outer space, specifically all operations 100 kilometers (62 miles) and greater above mean sea level.

The Office of Commercial Space Transportation (generally referred to as FAA/AST or simply AST) is the branch of the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that approves any commercial rocket launch operations, that is, any launches that are not classified as model, amateur, or "by and for the government", in the case of a U.S.

is an American technology company with manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military electronics.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC is an American telecommunications company that provides satellite-based communication services for consumer and enterprise markets.

It produced equipment for the Canadian Space Agency to be used in cooperation with NASA's Space Shuttle program, most notably the Canadarm, a remote manipulator system.

The Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) was a United States federal executive agency created in 1965 as part of a reorganization of the United States Department of Commerce.

NASA Alumni League (NAL) is a U.S.

The Human Systems Integration Division (HSI) are offices and laboratories within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, whose function is focused within investigation to application of new scientific knowledge relevant to human centred functioning in order to benefit the objectives of the NASA space program.

The American Rocket Society was a professional organization founded in 1930 as the American Interplanetary Society by science fiction authors and early spaceflight enthusiasts that merged with the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences to form the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1963.

The Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Directorate performs the physical science research at the Johnson Space Center (JSC).

The Center for Life Detection (CLD) is a collaboration among scientists and technologists from NASA’s Ames Research Center and Goddard Spaceflight Center, which formed in 2018 to support the planning and implementation of missions that will seek evidence of life beyond Earth.

Wallops Flight Facility (WFF; IATA: WAL, ICAO: KWAL, FAA LID: WAL) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Norfolk.

It is owned by NASA and located in New Orleans East, a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States.

White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is a NASA rocket engine test facility and a resource for testing and evaluating potentially hazardous materials, space flight components, and rocket propulsion systems.

The Mercury Control Center (also known as Building 1385 or simply MCC) was the facility responsible for control and coordination of NASA’s Project Mercury flight operations, as well as the first three Project Gemini missions (the first two uncrewed).

The Zero Gravity Research Facility at the NASA Glenn Research Center, in Cleveland, Ohio, is a unique facility designed to perform tests in a reduced gravity environment.

The Planetary Society is an American internationally-active non-governmental nonprofit organization.

The National Space Society (NSS) is an American international nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational and scientific organization specializing in space advocacy.

The Space Foundation is an American nonprofit organization, that advocates for the global space industry through space awareness activities, educational programs, and major industry events.

The Heliophysics Science Division of the Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA) conducts research on the Sun, its extended Solar System environment (the heliosphere), and interactions of Earth, other planets, small bodies, and interstellar gas with the heliosphere.

Spaceport America, formerly the Southwest Regional Spaceport, is an FAA-licensed spaceport located on 18,000 acres (7,300 ha) of State Trust Land in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin of the United States, 45 miles (72 km) north of Las Cruces, New Mexico and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Truth or Consequences.

It is also the first facility licensed in the U.S.

Reston, Virginia, U.S.

The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.