Kennedy Space Center will be a filming location for next year's "Transformers 3".

In 'Apollo 13', several scenes were filmed in NASA's famed 'Vomit Comet' so the actors could perform in true 'weightlessness'.

NASA Centers have been locations for many movies, most recently Kennedy Space center in 'Contact' (1997) and Langley Research Center in "The Box" (2009).

According to the Internet Movie Database, NASA has been involved in the production of over 200 movies.

The Aquarius / SAC-D mission being developed by NASA and the Space Agency of Argentina (Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales, CONAE).

Aquarius is an instrument developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that will be launched on the SAC-D satellite.

As computer models evolve, Aquarius will provide the essential Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) data needed to link the two major components of the climate system: the water cycle and ocean circulation

Aquarius will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, in a polar orbit that covers the entire planet every seven days.

Aquarius will collect more data about Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) in two months than had been amassed by ships and in-water sensors during the 100 years before launch

Aquarius is a mission of original exploration: Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) has never been observed from space

Beginning in 1995 with STS-71, Atlantis made seven straight flights to the former Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle-Mir Program. When linked, Atlantis and Mir together formed the largest spacecraft in orbit at the time.

Atlantis has made the fastest 'turnaround' time of the five flown orbiters, launching as STS61-B in November, 1985, only 50 days after it previous mission, STS-51-J

Atlantis will be the first of three orbiters to officially 'retire'.

Atlantis will make 32 flights to space before being retired. STS-132 will be its final mission.

Atlantis, which in 1985 became the fourth orbiter to be launched from Kennedy Space Center, was named after the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts from 1930 to 1966.

The official designation for space shuttle orbiter Atlantis is OV-104.

NASA conducts cutting-edge, fundamental research in traditional and emerging disciplines to help transform the nation's air transportation system, and to support future air and space vehicles.

The 500-pound X-48B aircraft celebrated its 80th and last flight of the project's first phase on March 19, 2010, or almost three years after its first flight on July 20, 2007.

The X-48B is an unmanned research the uses a blended wing/fuselage to reduce both exhaust and noise pollution.

The Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) Project will focus on improvements in noise, emission, and performance of future subsonic aircraft and the technologies that will help make them more environmentally friendly.

The Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) Project is a partnership with industry, the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and other government agencies.

AIRS has a spectral resolution more than 100 times greater than previous IR sounders and provides more accurate information on the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and moisture.