NASA

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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. Missing in Action NASA had a space monitoring facility near Mount St. Hilary, which the Decepticons took over so they could use its radio telescope to communicate with their forces on Cybertron. Jetfire, Prowl and Trailbreaker unsuccessfully tried to stop them. 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. Firebug!

Toy bios

NASA developed a sentient metal which they entrusted to the Autobots for safekeeping. It was used to construct Pepsi Convoy. Pepsi Convoy bio

Beast Wars cartoon

NASA launched the Voyager probe containing a Golden Disk, unaware that a secret message had been inscribed onto the disc by Megatron. The Agenda (Part 2)

Panini Armada comic

The 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. 'We Are Not Alone!'

Live-action film series

Transformers film

Several decades later, NASA sent the Beagle 2 Rover to Mars. It transmitted for a few minutes before being stepped on by a Decepticon. The footage was classified by Sector Seven. Transformers

Dark of the Moon film

When the Ark crashed on the 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 and Laserbeak gained the help of Dylan Gould's father in using creative accounting to shut down any further NASA missions. Dark of the Moon

After the arrival of the second wave of Autobots, NASA ended up looking after the Xantium as well as the three Wreckers. When the Ark crash came to light, 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. Dark of the Moon

The Last Knight film

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tracked Cybertron's approach to Earth. The Last Knight

Prime cartoon

William Fowler used his connections with NASA to obtain a state-of-the-art spacesuit for Jack Darby to use on a mission to Cybertron. Orion Pax, Part 2

Notes

• A space agency appears in the 2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon episode "Attack from Outer Space", which might be NASA but is never explicitly identified as such.
• In the real-world continuity family, Beagle 2 was a European Space Agency mission and not a NASA one.
• NASA runs an annual 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.

External links

• NASA at Wikipedia
• NASA's official site