Please note that the information presented here is from the 1997 version, the latest version available. NASA has decided not to publish further editions, either in print or electronic format, for the near future.

Table of Contents

Section A-Administration and Organization

• NASA Organization, a list of Headquarters Codes
• NASA Administrators, a list of NASA key personnel, including biographies of all NASA Administrators and Deputy Administrators
• National Aeronautics and Space Act, as amended
• NASA Installations
• The Year (1997) in Review

Section B-Space Flight Activity

• Launch History
• Current Worldwide Launch Vehicles
• Summary of Announced Launches
• NASA Shuttle Launches by Vehicle
• Summary of Announced Payloads
• Summary of USA Payloads
• Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests
• Soviet Spacecraft Designations
• NASA Astronauts
• United States Human Space Flights
• Shuttle Payloads and Experiments
• The Planets
• The Solar System
• Planetary Exploration
• Lunar Exploration
• Unofficial Tabulation of CIS (USSR) Payloads
• NASA Major Launch Record

Section C-Aeronautics & Space Transportation Technology

• NASA Aeronautical Programs
• Summary of "X" Experimental Aircraft
• Aero Res & Tech Budget Plans
• Aero Res & Tech Funding

Section D-Procurement, Funding and Workforce

• Contract Awards by State
• Distribution of NASA Prime Contract Awards
• Procurement Activity
• Contract Awards by Type of Effort
• Distribution of NASA Procurements
• Educational and Nonprofit Institutions
• Principal Contractors
• NASA's Budget Authority in 1996 Dollars
• Financial Summary
• R&D Funding by Program
• Space Flight, Control, & Data Funding by Program
• R&D Funding by Location
• Mission Support Funding by Program/Location
• Sci, Aero, & Tech Funding by Program/Location
• Human Space Flight Funding by Program/Location
• C of F Funding
• Personnel Summary
• NASA Civil Service Workforce Employment Trend
• Occupational Summary
• Women Employees/Minority Employees
• Workforce Diversity

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