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 is easy, but because it is hard!"

The Johnson Space Center is the home of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where samples collected during the Apollo mission are stored.

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.

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

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

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

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

The cupola, launched to the ISS on STS-130, is 4.9 feet in length, 9.7 feet in diameter and weighs about 4,145 pounds.

The Goddard Space Flight Center has developed more planetary instruments than any other institution on Earth.

Painted on the dry lake beds near Dryden is the world's largest compass rose, which measures approximately 0.75 miles (1.21 km) in diameter.

There is a tradition at JPL to eat "good luck peanuts" before critical mission events, such as orbital insertions or landings.