National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is a defunct independent space agency that was established under the federal government of the United States of America on Earth.

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NASA was the first civilian space organization and is responsible for much of humanity's progress in space exploration.

In 2122, NASA built Titan Astrobase on Titan to search the moon for microbial alien life. When that mission failed to produce results, NASA defunded Titan Astrobase's xenobiology program in 2132, and in 2135 the site was repurposed for research on how to construct colonies on inhospitable worlds. In 2185, Titan Astrobase was divested to the public as a historical site and was renamed New Homestead, becoming a member colony under the authority of the United Colonies.^[1]

NASA was instrumental in developing and introducing the Grav Drive. A small-scale prototype Grav Drive was successfully tested for the first time by NASA scientist and theoretical physicist Dr. Victor Aiza on April 14, 2138 at the NASA Launch Tower. The agency partnered with civilian ship manufacturing corporation Nova Galactic to conduct full-scale tests on Luna at the Nova Galactic Research Station, and the first public test was conducted on December 8, 2141.^[2]

NASA was last known to be in operation in 2149, when NASA scientists Dr. Victor Aiza and Dr. Judith Tatienne oversaw Project Demeter, a program that used weather satellites to track emerging changes in Earth's meteorological patterns. An analysis of Project Demeter data by NASA's Astrophysics Research Team (ART) confirmed that Earth's magnetosphere had been irreparably weakened by a design flaw in early model Grav Drives, which prompted the beginning of preparations for a global evacuation the following year.^[2]