NASA

Hey, waitamin... That's not Gigantion!

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (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

In 2003, 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.

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

While operating deep space sensors, a JPL engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory detected a planet-size object entering the solar system. Travelling to NASA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., he briefed the President's staff about the object, stating that it was traveling at 1/10 light speed and would approach Earth in three days. The following day, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Deep Space Network continued to track the incoming planet and confirmed that the planet was the exoplanet Cybertron. NASA and ESA jointly operated the Hubble Space Telescope to take images of the Cybertron; the footage was later shown on a TV screen in the British Prime Minister's office at 10 Downing Street.

While Cybertron came closer to the Earth the next day, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ESA gave a briefing about the planet's approach while it scraped the surface of the Moon. The Lunar Module Descent Stage and a U.S. flag from NASA's Apollo 11 mission were destroyed by the planet's outer chunks, which also knocked away the wreckage of the Ark. Before hitting the Earth, Cybertron first approached and destroyed the International Space Station, which was built and operated by NASA and four other space agencies, in a head-on collision.

The JPL team later assisted the United States military and the Autobots in trying to find a way to shut down Cybertron's ignition chamber. Unfortunately, the same JPL engineer who discovered Cybertron's approach claimed that the US military's plan to break into the ignition chamber and steal the staff was a bad idea and said that he would rather rely on "physics rather than fair-tales" to save the planet. The JPL team determined that Cybertron was using Earth's core (aka Unicron) to rebuild itself. The same JPL engineer from before informed the Pentagon that if Earth's core continued to cool, Earth's magnetic field would be gone and that the planet's surface would be exposed to high levels of cosmic radiation, leading to the demise of all life.

When the US military's plan began failing due to heavy resistance from an army of Decepticons and Infernocons, the JPL came up with a Hail Mary-level plan to use tactical nukes to cause a fragment of Cybertron to swing down and hit the ignition chamber. The Pentagon agreed and requested tactical nuke authority. F-35 Lighting II and F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets associated with the United States Air Force opened fire and struck the selected chunk of Cybertron, which proceeded to knock off the ignition chamber. Unfortunately, the ignition chamber continued to operate, much to NASA's disappointment. Fortunately, Viviane Wembly was able to pull the control staff free, shutting down the ignition chamber just before it crashed to the ground. The JPL staff cheered while the same engineer expressed relief. 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

Toys

War for Cybertron: Earthrise

"I'm so fantastic, that they needed an official license just to get me right!"

• Sky Lynx (Commander Class, 2020)

In a first for the Transformers brand, Sky Lynx is one of two Earthrise space shuttle toys developed with an official license from NASA, and bears NASA logos in his deco. Also as part of that partnership, Sky Lynx was given a new fictitious Space Shuttle name, visible below the cargo bay door hinges. He is... the Magnificence.

• Astro Squad (Multi-pack, 2020)

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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