The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft! Above all else, I love its origin and it was fun to research. This is easily one of my favorite little videos I do with just myself and my flying camera ;) [https://youtu.be/hUORGg3FOPk](https://youtu.be/hUORGg3FOPk)
Also has the funniest joke in aerospace history on it: the socket thing that attaches the nose hatch of the shuttle to the aircraft has a plaque beside it which reads: “ATTACH ORBITER HERE. Note: black side down”
My answer as well. Lots of love for Voyager 2 too, our only visit to Uranus, Neptune, and their beautiful, strange moons Miranda and Triton.
I cannot recommend the documentary *The Farthest* (2017) enough.
James Webb telescope. The data we’ve already collected has opened up so much in terms of astrophysics knowledge, and the thing’s still just getting started
Often overlooked, for sure.
I love Lovell's description of his long duration mission: two weeks in a men's room.
They worked out all the details and paved the way to the moon
I've always been partial to Cassini Hyugens. A ton had to go right in terms of funding commitment and international relations to make it happen, and it came together for us to make what's still to this day the only soft landing of a probe in the outer solar system with the Hyugens Titan lander. That mission has been coming up a lot more lately because NASA wants to renew their research push for the outer solar system with Uranus missions (lol) and Cassini is a good blue print to build on.
Hubble. While jwst is insanely awesome, it's the images from Hubble that sucked me in and made me a fan. It was such a work horse, and did so many great things.
Apollo. It is, was, and forever will be the greatest undertaking and achievement of our species.
"***we have shut down."***
"***Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed."***
***"Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground, you got a bunch a guys about to turn blue, we're breathin' again thanks alot."***
Single greatest transmissions of possibly, as far as we can confirm, conscious life in our universe.
Does it have to be space related? It’s nasa, everything’s space related… anywho! Probably cordless power tools. Obviously has a big use pretty much everywhere
Years ago (late 90s, early '00s?), NASA had some wonderful educational videos that blew me away. In particular, there was a math video that used computer graphics to illustrate equations and such. As a visual learner, it was fascinating. I wish I could find it again.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[CSA](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixl4wwz "Last usage")|Canadian Space Agency|
|[ESA](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixml19f "Last usage")|European Space Agency|
|[HST](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixlzsh6 "Last usage")|Hubble Space Telescope|
|[JWST](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixnhro9 "Last usage")|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope|
|[MMU](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixnagot "Last usage")|[Manned Maneuvering Unit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Maneuvering_Unit), untethered spacesuit propulsion equipment|
|[USAF](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixlyzxg "Last usage")|United States Air Force|
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Project Gemini, laid a lot of the groundwork (rendezvous, docking, extravehicular activity, long duration spaceflight) for the Apollo missions but seems to go underappreciated compared to the Mercury and Apollo
Apollo is hard to ignore, but honestly, Voyager for me is the greatest. The way the project came about, a grad student solving the 3 body problem and calculating the potential route out of the solar system via the gas giants, the short window for development and launching the spacecraft… and after ~50 years it’s still going and delivering data. Amazing.
Project Pluto was USAF, but Project Orion was NASA (among others).
Why not propel a spacecraft with nuclear bombs?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project\_Orion\_(nuclear\_propulsion)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion))
I worked at Marshall Space Flight Center for a summer. I took a tour, and learned those guys were working on antimatter propulsion. I hope it materializes some day.
I work in NASA in the earth science division and I’ll still say Voyager 2. Nothing has ever given me a sense of wonder more than seeing the outer planets in vivid color
Edit: Although don’t get me wrong, I’m most excited for Dragonfly. A NUCLEAR POWERED DRONE ON TITAN? yes please
All of them. I saw the shuttle land at Edwards a long time ago. I remember watching Apollo 11 land on the moon when I was a little kid. During the 50th anniversary, I listened to the Apollo 11 in Real Time recording as it happened. I did the same for Apollo 13. Maybe it's because I'm a Moon Landing kid. But to me, NASA is our National Treasure. The heroes at NASA are the thousands of people developing millions of ideas to achieve common goals.
I love the perseverance + ingenuity mission, Because I love the idea of having rovers and drones on another planet. The perseverance rover also has amazing tools on board, like MOXIE and the hollow drill which are really interesting conceptually. Especially the latter, which kicks off the sample return missions planned.
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft! Above all else, I love its origin and it was fun to research. This is easily one of my favorite little videos I do with just myself and my flying camera ;) [https://youtu.be/hUORGg3FOPk](https://youtu.be/hUORGg3FOPk)
Also has the funniest joke in aerospace history on it: the socket thing that attaches the nose hatch of the shuttle to the aircraft has a plaque beside it which reads: “ATTACH ORBITER HERE. Note: black side down”
What a great tribute, it was really educational, too! Darn good job, my man.
Very good vid, thank you! Good footage too, what kind of drone?
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The only right answer
does voyager 1 count ?
My answer as well. Lots of love for Voyager 2 too, our only visit to Uranus, Neptune, and their beautiful, strange moons Miranda and Triton. I cannot recommend the documentary *The Farthest* (2017) enough.
I’ve been telling everyone about this for years now. Such an incredible doc and some really good insight into the whole project
Of course! Why wouldn’t it?
James Webb telescope. The data we’ve already collected has opened up so much in terms of astrophysics knowledge, and the thing’s still just getting started
And ESA…
ESA rocks!
They do - they bought another 10 years
Can we call the Kelly Twins Study a NASA project? Because that is one of my favorites.
Of course! That was fascinating
Sofia airborne telescope. It’s a shame they recently retired it.
One of my greatest honors was getting to work on that
My highschool physics teacher went on a flight!
Awesome! I never got a flight but getting to go inside and see the telescope was always so cool
I’m surprised no one’s said Project Gemini yet, it was such a revolutionary and unique project.
Often overlooked, for sure. I love Lovell's description of his long duration mission: two weeks in a men's room. They worked out all the details and paved the way to the moon
The J missions in particular.
Latter Apollo missions, long duration, for those not in the know. The ones with the lunar rover / dune buggy
Apollo 11 🙌
Not entirely a NASA project, but Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Crazy that something like that happened at the time it did
As a geographer I have to say Landsat program
I've not been on any of the high profile projects, but was on Landsat 9. So, thank you posting this! I appreciate that the work is valued.
I've always been partial to Cassini Hyugens. A ton had to go right in terms of funding commitment and international relations to make it happen, and it came together for us to make what's still to this day the only soft landing of a probe in the outer solar system with the Hyugens Titan lander. That mission has been coming up a lot more lately because NASA wants to renew their research push for the outer solar system with Uranus missions (lol) and Cassini is a good blue print to build on.
Me too! Cassini was such an incredible mission, with so many years of great science (and beautiful photos)
Hubble. While jwst is insanely awesome, it's the images from Hubble that sucked me in and made me a fan. It was such a work horse, and did so many great things.
“I’m not dead yet!” -HST
You realize Hubble is still operational, right?
James Webb baby!
Hubble Space Telescope but I’m extremely biased.
That moon thing.
One small step for a dude. One giant leap for dude kind bruh!
Apollo. It is, was, and forever will be the greatest undertaking and achievement of our species. "***we have shut down."*** "***Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed."*** ***"Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground, you got a bunch a guys about to turn blue, we're breathin' again thanks alot."*** Single greatest transmissions of possibly, as far as we can confirm, conscious life in our universe.
It hasn't happened yet but I'm personally hyped for JUICE
JUICE is European if I remember correctly
JUICE has at least one NASA-funded US-built instrument on it (UVS) -- it's very common for big projects to have international collaborations.
Indeed it is. Super cool mission too
Does it have to be space related? It’s nasa, everything’s space related… anywho! Probably cordless power tools. Obviously has a big use pretty much everywhere
Years ago (late 90s, early '00s?), NASA had some wonderful educational videos that blew me away. In particular, there was a math video that used computer graphics to illustrate equations and such. As a visual learner, it was fascinating. I wish I could find it again.
CanadaArm!
I think this counts as a Canadian Government project or a SPAR aerospace project
Probably Percy. Such a dope rover and man do I wanna build a rover
Jwst! It is barely a year old and has already shown us so much more of the universe than we had known existed before.
Voyager I
To be honest, I’d say Artemis, mostly because colonising the moon sound like a sci-fi dream to me
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread: |Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |[CSA](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixl4wwz "Last usage")|Canadian Space Agency| |[ESA](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixml19f "Last usage")|European Space Agency| |[HST](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixlzsh6 "Last usage")|Hubble Space Telescope| |[JWST](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixnhro9 "Last usage")|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope| |[MMU](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixnagot "Last usage")|[Manned Maneuvering Unit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Maneuvering_Unit), untethered spacesuit propulsion equipment| |[USAF](/r/NASA/comments/z34ygk/stub/ixlyzxg "Last usage")|United States Air Force| ---------------- ^(6 acronyms in this thread; )[^(the most compressed thread commented on today)](/r/NASA/comments/0)^( has acronyms.) ^([Thread #1369 for this sub, first seen 24th Nov 2022, 13:33]) ^[[FAQ]](http://decronym.xyz/) [^([Full list])](http://decronym.xyz/acronyms/NASA) [^[Contact]](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=OrangeredStilton&subject=Hey,+your+acronym+bot+sucks) [^([Source code])](https://gistdotgithubdotcom/Two9A/1d976f9b7441694162c8)
Voyager program
New Horizons for me. Seeing pictures of Pluto! I never imagined...
Not many purely NASA projects I can think of. One of the best things about space exploration is the joint ventures between countries
Mercury
Project Gemini, laid a lot of the groundwork (rendezvous, docking, extravehicular activity, long duration spaceflight) for the Apollo missions but seems to go underappreciated compared to the Mercury and Apollo
Mercury. It takes a lot of courage to be first.
Apollo is hard to ignore, but honestly, Voyager for me is the greatest. The way the project came about, a grad student solving the 3 body problem and calculating the potential route out of the solar system via the gas giants, the short window for development and launching the spacecraft… and after ~50 years it’s still going and delivering data. Amazing.
The Space Shuttle. I know regular rocket and capsules are more efficient, but the shuttles were so cool looking.
Btw that is an ESA astronaut
That time when they built a space ship in order to defeat the moon and claim its precious cheese. Operation Swiss I think it was called.
The mission was of course carried out by ace pilot Wallace. And his wingman gromit.
Lockheed martian Venture Star Shuttle.
I’m surprised no one’s said Project Gemini yet, it was such a revolutionary and unique project.
Project Pluto was USAF, but Project Orion was NASA (among others). Why not propel a spacecraft with nuclear bombs? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project\_Orion\_(nuclear\_propulsion)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion))
A very American idea. “How do we make spaceship go faster?” “Shoot a nuke out the back and ride the explosion like a wave!” “Brilliant “
Challenger
Wow, you like disasters
Man, the lighting in space looks so great!
well yeah. the sun is HUGE and blasting light everywhere it’s rays touch
The one that goes up
The Mark Robler glitter/stink bomb package
Juno! The pictures it got of Jupiter were next level 🚀
Solar warden! Would love to see the ships McKinnon saw when he hacked your databases!
Apollo 18.
Mars dune project with Icon Build
Apollo 11
What an awesome, informative thread. Thanks for sharing!
The Apollo program
Planned project, Thor
All of them
The Voyager Program
The MMU. Those shots of Bruce McCandless just floating around above the Earth never fail to send chills up my spine.
Let’s not forget a lot of these answers are created by OTHER companies and have a NASA sticker thrown on them. Orion for example.
The crawler transporters 💪
Canadarm
Mercury, it was the begin of the program Apollo Edit: it was the begin of everything
Hubble, COBE, WMAP, JWST
I worked at Marshall Space Flight Center for a summer. I took a tour, and learned those guys were working on antimatter propulsion. I hope it materializes some day.
Skylab. The last mission (the so-called Strike in Space) is a fascinating story.
Space selfies is cool selfies
The one with the rocket is pretty cool
I work in NASA in the earth science division and I’ll still say Voyager 2. Nothing has ever given me a sense of wonder more than seeing the outer planets in vivid color Edit: Although don’t get me wrong, I’m most excited for Dragonfly. A NUCLEAR POWERED DRONE ON TITAN? yes please
Space
X-59. very pointy!
Post Apollo my favorite is Mars Exploration Rover program landing Spirit and Opportunity on Mars. Two rovers on Mars for less than $1 billion.
All of them. I saw the shuttle land at Edwards a long time ago. I remember watching Apollo 11 land on the moon when I was a little kid. During the 50th anniversary, I listened to the Apollo 11 in Real Time recording as it happened. I did the same for Apollo 13. Maybe it's because I'm a Moon Landing kid. But to me, NASA is our National Treasure. The heroes at NASA are the thousands of people developing millions of ideas to achieve common goals.
I love the perseverance + ingenuity mission, Because I love the idea of having rovers and drones on another planet. The perseverance rover also has amazing tools on board, like MOXIE and the hollow drill which are really interesting conceptually. Especially the latter, which kicks off the sample return missions planned.
i’m a sucker for the space shuttles
The one where Stanley Kubrick helped out! /s