NASA
NASA is the United States federal agency responsible for space exploration and aeronautics research.
NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is a US federal agency founded in 1958 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It carries out human spaceflight, planetary exploration, space telescopes, Earth observation and aeronautics research, and its Apollo program landed people on the Moon.
Because software errors in spacecraft and aircraft can be fatal, NASA has also been involved in research on software reliability and verification.
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Many engineers at the time refused to use it, insisting computers were only for arithmetic, but the idea led to languages like FORTRAN, which NASA still uses.