AIRS data were used to create the first ever global map of carbon dioxide taken from direct observation

AIRS can also measure trace greenhouse gases such as ozone, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and methane.

AIRS uses cutting-edge infrared technology to create 3-dimensional maps of air and surface temperature, water vapor, and cloud properties.

AIRS is one of six instruments on board the Aqua satellite, part of the NASA Earth Observing System.

AIRS is a facility instrument whose goal is to support climate research and improve weather forecasting

By 2005, the Center was home to over 30 government agencies and private companies. By far the largest of these were elements of the United States Navy with some 3,500 personnel, which was far larger than the NASA civil servant contingent.

Before construction of the Stennis Space Center began, five small communities (Gainesville, Logtown, Napoleon, Santa Rosa and Westonia) with 700 families were relocated. Remnants of the communities, including city streets and a one-room school house, still exist within the facility.

Stennis Space Center is also home to Navy Special Boat Team 22 and NAVSCIATTS (Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School).

The Stennis Space Center test area (officially known as the Fee Area) is surrounded by a 125,000 acres (506 km2) acoustical buffer zone.

The visitor center for the Stennis Space Center is known as StenniSphere. Exhibits focus on the the activities of NASA, space, space exploration, science, geography, weather and more. Visitors 18 and over must present a photo ID.

Stennis Space Center has been renamed several times, becoming the Mississippi Test Facility in 1965, the National Space Technology Laboratories in 1974, and taking its present name in 1988 in order to honor the late Mississippi Senator John C. Stennis for his unwavering support of the national space program.

Grumman Aerospace Corporation, the builder of the Lunar Module, issued an invoice for $312,421.24 to North American Rockwell, the builder of the Command Module (CM), for "towing" the crippled ship most of the way to the moon and back. This was never paid.

Because Apollo 13 followed the free return trajectory, its altitude over the lunar far side was approximately 100 km (60 mi) greater than the orbital altitude on the remaining Apollo lunar missions. It made the all-time altitude record for human spaceflight.

The Apollo 13 mission was to explore the Fra Mauro formation, or Fra Mauro highlands, named after the 80-kilometer-diameter Fra Mauro crater located within it.

Ken Mattingly was originally slated to be the command module pilot. After being exposed to rubella (German measles) contracted by backup Lunar Module pilot Charles Duke—a disease to which Mattingly was not immune—he was replaced by Swigert three days before launch.

The Apollo 13 mission has been called "a successful failure", because the astronauts were brought home safely notwithstanding the failure of the mission.

Apollo 13 was launched on April 11, 1970 at 13:13 CST.

The Taurus ELV (Expendable Launch Vehicle) is a four stage, solid fuel launch vehicle built by Orbital Sciences Corporation. It is based on the air-launched Pegasus rocket.

The Glory satellite will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Taurus XL vehicle. The launch is planned for November 2010.

The science focus areas served by Glory will include: atmospheric composition; carbon cycle, ecosystems, and biogeochemistry; climate variability and change; and water and energy cycles.

Glory will leave Earth from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California atop a Taurus XL expendable launch vehicle.

Astronauts train at Johnson Space Center and the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, a 6.2 million gallon pool where astronauts can practice extravehicular activities.

The Johnson Space Center is located on property donated by Rice University. Rice is where President Kennedy said, "We go to the moon ... not because it tis easy, but because it is hard!"

"Houston" is the call sign for Mission Control during space missions.