NASA

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nasa"

English

Alternative forms

• N.A.S.A., Nasa (British, Australian, New Zealand English variant)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæsə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æsə

Proper noun

NASA or the NASA

1. Acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
   • 2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point‎^[1], Pocket Books, →ISBN:

     NASA was often accused of talking over the public's head.

   • 2013 August 6, Andrea Chang, “Bezos known for his unusual forays”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[2], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 March 2026:

     He is working on a “10,000 Year Clock,” which would keep time for 10,000 years, inside a remote mountain in West Texas, and this year he helped recover F-1 rocket engines, used in the NASA’s Apollo program, from the Atlantic Ocean.

   • 2015 July 20, Christian Davenport, “Hearing Elon Musk explain why his rocket blew up shows why he’s such an intense CEO”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 August 2015:

     He reiterated that the investigation into the explosion being conducted by SpaceX in conjunction with the Federal Aviation Administration and the NASA was still ongoing and that it could turn up causes other than a failed strut.

   • 2017 January 3, Marina Koren, “The Most Vulnerable NASA Missions Under Trump”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎^[4], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 January 2017:

     The NASA’s earth sciences division, which studies climate change and environmental conditions on Earth, is perhaps at greatest risk.

   • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 215:

     Researchers at NASA have taken an interest in 'mycotecture' and its potential role in growing structures on the Moon.

   • 2025 April 24, Andrew Freedman, “Trump administration cancels top NASA climate lab’s lease at Columbia University”, in CNN‎^[5]:

     A NASA spokesperson said in a statement “employees would be placed on temporary remote work agreements while NASA seeks and evaluates options for a new space for the GISS team.”

2. (sports) Acronym of National Auto Sport Association

Derived terms

• Nastronaut

Translations

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Arabic: نَاسَا f (nāsā)
• Armenian: ՆԱՍԱ (hy) (NASA)
• Azerbaijani: NASA
• Bengali: নাসা (bn) (naśa)
• Dutch: NASA (nl) f
• French: NASA (fr) f
• German: NASA (de) f
• Hebrew: נאס״א
• Hindi: नासा (hi) (nāsā)
• Hungarian: NASA (hu)
• Japanese: NASA (ja) (NASA), ナサ (ja) (Nasa)
• Korean: 나사 (ko) (Nasa)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ناسا (nasa)

• Macedonian: НАСА f (NASA)
• Marathi: नासा (nāsā)
• Persian: ناسا (nâsâ)
• Polish: NASA (pl) f
• Portuguese: NASA (pt) f
• Romanian: NASA (ro) f
• Russian: НА́СА (ru) f or n (NÁSA)
• Spanish: NASA (es) f
• Telugu: నాసా (nāsā)
• Thai: นาซา (naa-saa), นาซ่า (naa-sâa)
• Turkish: NASA (tr)
• Ukrainian: НАСА f or n (NASA)
• Vietnamese: NASA (vi)

References

• “NASA”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “NASA”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “NASA”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “NASA” (US) / “NASA” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “NASA”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• NASA in Britannica Dictionary

Further reading

• (space agency): NASA on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (sports): NASA on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Sana, Ṣan‘ā’, Saan, ANAs, anas, San'a', AANs, Naas, ansa

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		НАСА
Arabic		ناسا

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English NASA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑ.sɑ/

Proper noun

NASA

1. NASA

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English NASA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.saː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: NASA

Proper noun

NASA f

1. acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NASA

References

• “NASA” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English NASA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.za/
• Rhymes: -za

Proper noun

NASA f

1. NASA

German

Alternative forms

• Nasa

Etymology

Borrowed from English NASA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːza/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

NASA f (proper noun, genitive NASA)

1. (with definite article) NASA (abbreviation of National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Declension

Declension of NASA [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	NASA
genitive	einer	der	NASA
dative	einer	der	NASA
accusative	eine	die	NASA

Polish

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English NASA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.sa/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: NA‧SA

Proper noun

NASA f (indeclinable)

1. NASA

Further reading

• “NASA”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[6] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “NASA”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[7] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English NASA.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈna.zɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈna.zɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈna.za/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈna.zɐ/

Proper noun

NASA f

1. NASA (acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Further reading

• “NASA”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Vietnamese

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English NASA

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [naː˧˧ zaː˧˧], [naː˧˧ saː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [naː˧˧ zaː˧˧] ~ [naː˧˧ jaː˧˧], [naː˧˧ saː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [naː˧˧ zaː˧˧] ~ [naː˧˧ jaː˧˧], [naː˧˧ saː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: na za, na xa

Proper noun

NASA

1. NASA (acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration)