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The '''National Aeronautics and Space Administration''', or '''NASA''' is a government agency in the [[United States of America]], with the primary mission of space exploration. Their primary launch facility is Kennedy Space Center in [[Florida]].

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel UK comic continuity====
[[Danny Phillips]]'s father died while testing an experimental rocket for NASA. {{storylink|Missing in Action}} NASA had a space monitoring facility near [[Mount St. Hilary]], which the [[Decepticon]]s took over so they could use its radio telescope to communicate with their forces on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] unsuccessfully tried to stop them. {{storylink|The Gift}} Like [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]], NASA's instruments completely failed to detect the meteor containing the [[Firebug]] as it crashed on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Firebug!}}

====Toy bios====
NASA developed a [[sentient metal]] which they entrusted to the [[Autobot]]s for safekeeping. It was used to construct [[Pepsi Convoy]]. {{storylink|Pepsi Convoy|Pepsi Convoy bio}}

====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
NASA launched the ''Voyager'' probe containing a [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], unaware that a secret message had been inscribed onto the disc by [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

===Panini ''Armada'' comic===
The [[Air Defense Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Air Defense Mini-Con Team]] broke into a NASA facility, intending to steal a human spacecraft so they could get off the planet, however the [[Extra-Terrestrial Response Division]] was waiting for them. The humans incapacitated the [[Mini-Con]] team and spirited them away to [[Area 54]]. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 5|'We Are Not Alone!'}}

===Movie continuity===
When the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]'' crashed on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] in [[1961]], [[John F. Kennedy]] tasked NASA with getting men up there. After years of work, the ''[[Apollo 11]]'' launched in [[1969]]. Astronauts [[Neil Armstrong]] and [[Buzz Aldrin]] successfully landed on the Moon and, during a period of communications blackout with NASA, entered the ''Ark''. Over the years, a number of other missions to the site were made, taking photos and retrieving samples. In the early 70s, [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] and [[Laserbeak (DOTM)|Laserbeak]] gained the help of [[Dylan Gould]]'s father in using creative accounting to shut down any further NASA missions. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}} 

Several decades later, NASA sent [[Beagle 2 Rover]] to [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. It transmitted for a few minutees before being stepped on by a Decepticon. The footage was classified by [[Sector Seven]]. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|Transformers}}

After the arrival of the second wave of Autobots, NASA ended up looking after the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'' as well as the three [[Wrecker]]s. When the ''Ark'' crash came to light, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] met with Buzz Aldrin and a couple of NASA's founding associates to discuss the crash. Some time later, when the Autobots were ordered to vacate Earth, they attached the ''Xantium'' to the ''[[Discovery]]'' and launched it, only for the ship to be destroyed by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

==Notes==
*A space agency appears in the ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (cartoon)| Robots in Disguise]]'' episode "[[Attack from Outer Space]]", which ''might'' be NASA but is never explicitly identified as such.
*NASA runs an annual [http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/optimus/ Optimus Prime Spinoff Award] which America's school children can enter to showcase their inventions. [[Peter Cullen]] presents the award, just to make it that much more awesome.

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