The Canadian Space Agency (CSA; French: Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the national space agency of Canada, established in 1990 by the Canadian Space Agency Act.. The president is Lisa Campbell, who took the position on September 3, 2020. The agency is responsible to the minister of innovation, science and industry.The CSA's headquarters are located at the John H. …

The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Ural region in Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC). The light from the meteor was briefly brighter than the Sun, visible up to 100 km (62 mi) away.It was observed over a wide area of the region and in neighbouring republics. Some eyewitnesses also felt intense …

Space Adventures, Inc. is an American space tourism company founded in 1998 by Eric C. Anderson.Its offerings include zero-gravity atmospheric flights, orbital spaceflights (with the option to participate in a spacewalk), and other spaceflight-related experiences including cosmonaut training, spacewalk training, and launch tours. Plans announced thus far include …

Peter Maggs, William Burnham and Gennady Danilenko, Law and Legal System of the Russian Federation, Juris Publishing, Inc., 2012; External links. kremlin.ru/acts — Documents of the President of Russia (in Russian); government.ru/docs — Documents of the Government of Russia (in Russian); zakon.scli.ru — Normative legal acts of the Russian Federation from the Ministry …

The agency does not have its own spaceport and until 2014, depended on the resources of the Russian Federal Space Agency (the primary inheritor of the Soviet space program). Before December 9, 2010, the agency was known as Національне космічне агентство України, НКАУ, the National Space Agency of Ukraine ...

The Space Shuttle was a partially-reusable spacecraft operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).: 5, 195 It flew for the first time in April 1981,: III–24 and was used to conduct in-orbit research,: III–188 and deploy commercial,: III–66 military,: III–68 and scientific payloads.: III–148 At launch, it consisted of the orbiter, which contained the crew ...

Legislative definitions of a federal agency are varied, and even contradictory. The official United States Government Manual offers no definition. While the Administrative Procedure Act definition of "agency" applies to most executive branch agencies, Congress may define an agency however it chooses in enabling legislation, and through subsequent litigation often involving the …

The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located in Huntsville, Alabama, is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. As the largest NASA center, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo program.Marshall has been the lead center for the Space Shuttle main propulsion and external …

The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) is the national space agency of Nigeria.It is a parastatal under Federal Ministry of Science and Technology.The agency is based in the Nigerian capital city of Abuja in the Lugbe district and has a ground receiving station, among various other sites. It has had cooperation in space technology with the United …

The Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation is, since 2008, the Russian federal ministry responsible for energy policy.. This ministry was created in May 2008 as part of a reorganization by the incoming government of President Dmitry Medvedev.It is headquartered in Moscow.The former Ministry of Industry and Energy was turned into the Ministry of Industry, whose present …