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Works Progress Administration

(Encyclopedia)Works Progress Administration: see Work Projects Administration. ...

Mercury space program

(Encyclopedia)Mercury space program: see space exploration. ...

Mariner space program

(Encyclopedia)Mariner space program: see space exploration. ...

Gemini space program

(Encyclopedia)Gemini space program: see space exploration. ...

Apollo space program

(Encyclopedia)Apollo space program: see space exploration. ...

Space Transportation System

(Encyclopedia)Space Transportation System, official designation for the U.S. space shuttle. ...

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

(Encyclopedia)Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), former U.S. government agency established (1933) in the Dept. of Agriculture under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as part of Franklin Delano Roos...

Space Force, United States

(Encyclopedia)Space Force, United States (USSF), military force that forms a separate service within the U.S. Dept. of the Air Force, est. Dec. 20, 2019, by act of Congress. The head of the Space Force is the Chief...

Economic Cooperation Administration

(Encyclopedia)Economic Cooperation Administration: see Marshall Plan. ...

Aldrin, Buzz

(Encyclopedia)Aldrin, Buzz ôlˈdrĭn [key] (Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.), 1930–, American astronaut, b. Montclair, N.J. After graduating from West Point (1951), Aldrin joined the U.S. air force and flew 66 combat m...