Columbia Encyclopedia

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

(Encyclopedia) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. agency established (1970) in the Dept. of Labor (see Labor, United States Department of) to develop and enforce regulations for the safety an...

(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...

(Encyclopedia) European Space Operations Center (ESOC): see European Space Agency. ...

(Encyclopedia) European Space Research Institute (ESRIN): see European Space Agency. ...

(Encyclopedia) European Space Research Organization (ESRO): see European Space Agency. ...

(Encyclopedia) Infrared Space Observatory: see infrared astronomy. ...

(Encyclopedia) meteorology, branch of science that deals with the atmosphere of a planet, particularly that of the earth, the most important application of which is the analysis and prediction of weather. Individual...

(Encyclopedia) communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an instrumented inflat...

(Encyclopedia) Columbia, U.S. space shuttle. On its 28th flight, on Feb. 1, 2003, after completing a 16-day scientific mission, the spacecraft disintegrated during reentry, killing its seven-person crew. About 16 mi...