FEDERATION: HISTORICAL

NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Earth-based branch of the American government responsible for many early space exploration missions, including Apollo 11 and Voyager VI. NASA launched the spaceship Charybdis from Earth on July 23, 2037, the ill-fated third manned attempt to explore beyond the solar system. The ship suffered a telemetry failure, and its fate was unknown until 2365, when the remains of the Charybdis were discovered in orbit around a planet in the Theta 116 system.