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NASA is the United State's National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA was responsible for American space exporation missions like Mercury, Gemini, Apollo (which took people to visit the moon and collect scientific data and samples), the Space Shuttle, Skylab (an orbitiing space station – a precursor of the ISS [Inernational Space Station]) and Pioneer and Voyager probes which collected data form other planets. NASA is funded by the United States government.
