NASA (and acronym for “National Aeronautics and Space Administration") is the leading company in space exploration and discovery, pushing the very boundaries of it's own foundation. It was established in 1958 from it's predecessor the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and has become a household name ever since. They led such space missions as the Apollo Moon landing, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle.
For those of you who are interested in the history of the agency, the developments of space exploration and the mechanics of such an intense and interesting field, the Kennedy Space Genre is situated not too far from Orlando in Florida at Cape Canaveral, and offers a plethora of information and artefacts about space missions and history around the historical sites that have been used to both build and launch the shuttles. When they tell you the amount of paint used to paint what looks like a small American flag on the side of the hangar where they used to build shuttles, and that they can drive a bus down each of the stripes, it will blow your mind. Not only do they offer information about the space launches and the history of the company, but the area is also a nature reserve, and a home for spices such as manatees and armadillos.
NASA also provide information on the times and dates of all of their proposed rocket launches. While these can be witnessed from close to the Kennedy Space Centre, you can also watch these from all over Florida, even as far away as Coco Beach. There is a constant countdown on the museum website (https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com) until the next launch, as well as information on the official NASA website (https://www.nasa.gov) for those who are eager to see such an extraordinary event. Please just be aware that these are proposed launches, and that they are not guaranteed as a shuttle launch is a very technical procedure and that safety considerations must be taken which sometimes include delaying the shuttle launch times. When the shuttles do launch, they are powerful enough to shake almost every window in Florida.
They also provide a SkyWatch application which allows astronomers to have a real time feed of what they are able to see in the sky, including sightings of the International Space Station every time it passes their location along with other observations in the universe that can be sound from the ground. The International Space Station is the third brightest object that can be observed from the ground, and with the information provided by NASA, it is very easy to spot.
The NASA website also offers a multitude of other links to information regarding the work that they complete. There are constant news and update feeds relating to all of their work and missions, a daily image which is never less than extraordinary, information about climate shift and global warming observations made about planet earth, information about the history of the company and enough scientific information to overload you for the next year.