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NASA stands for: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Some of NASA's accomplishments would be:

• Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins (all the first people to land on the moon) rode the Apollo 11 (the rocket NASA made) and blasted off on July 16th, 1969 to the moon.
• NASA has invented the Mars Rover and many other rovers that have landed on Mars.
• The Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most largest and famous telescopes, snaps pictures of the galaxy with almost no background light. It has taken the most visible light images and has accurately determined the rate of expansion of the universe (part of astrophysics). It is expected to function until 2013.

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