Agencies and government
NASA
The civil space agency whose Florida center anchors the chain, and which signs the memorandum of understanding with the state university consortium in January 2025 [NASAKSC][NASACON].
- Entity type
- federal civil space agency
- Kind
- agency
- Lane
- Agencies and government
- Place
- Washington, headquarters outside Florida
- Hub region
- Headquartered outside Florida
- Founding year
- 1958
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1962 · 1962: NASA operates site Kennedy Space Center (1962)
- Role
- civil space agency
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. Owner of Kennedy Space Center and party to the consortium agreement.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 5
- Betweenness
- 0.0701 on the full graph · 0.0075 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [NASAKSC] [NASACON]
Connections
Property, facility and development
- operates site →Kennedy Space Centerthe agency establishes and owns the Florida center [NASAKSC]1962
- retains for program →Launch Complex 39Bthe agency retains the second Apollo pad for the Space Launch System [NASAKSC]1968 onward
Industrial production and service
- awards contract to →Redwire Spaceagency contracts for in space pharmaceutical work and a $25 million biotechnology award for the International Space Station [RDWNASA] [RDWIDIQ]2025
- awards contract to →United Space AllianceNASA makes the joint venture prime contractor for Space Shuttle operations in October 1996 [FLHR9421]1996
Commercial disclosure
- names as customer ←Sidus Spacethe Sidus Space annual report lists the agency among customers for flight proven hardware and systems; no specific Florida product delivery to the agency is itemized in the filing [SIDUS10K]2012 onward