What is / was NASA's greatest achievement? (Other than Apollo).?

Question

What is / was NASA's greatest achievement? (Other than Apollo).?

Answer 1

According to Pete Conrad who walked on the moon, fixing skylab was much more challenging than his voyage to and walking on the moon.

Since Apollo, many agree it was the repair in space of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Answer 2

Voyager 1 because it is the most distant man made object from earth.

Answer 3

Ok i'm Canadian so i might be a little biased but i would have to say the Canadarm, robotics of any kind is awesome but robotics in space is even better.

Answer 4

Skylab was a miracle in space.  The crew installed a thermal covering to replace the one that got ripped off during launch. That lowered the temperature inside Skylab from 120 degrees to around 100. They then had to go outside and free the solar panel so it could extend and give the station power.  That was done without the benefit of handholds or restraints since men were never supposed to go to that area of Skylab.  All in all, a very successful set of missions considering the cards dealt against it.

Answer 5

LoL... cute...

Answer 6

Voyager 2 Grand Tour. One space probe, 4 planets, 30 years in space, still calls home.

Edit: to Shamrock4751 below; velcro was invented by a Swiss engineer George de Mestral in 1941. NASA was officially created in 1958. NASA's adoption of velcro for several odds and ends may have made it popular, but they did not invent it.

Answer 7

It will probably be New Horizons though Cassini\Huygens is the one for now, New Horizons is the fastest most sophisticated spacecraft to date and already has sent stunning images of the weather systems in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. Voyager still rocks though. With all due respect to the afformentiond contributer seems to me "Gravitational Lensing" will soon make old Hubbie pretty obsolete since our peering into the cosmos is still in it's infancy.

Answer 8

That depends on your point of view...

The Hubble Space Telescope could be argued as their greatest achievement for several reasons.

Apart from producing images that have captured the publics imagination, those images have provided a great deal of data for astronomers and astrophysicists and have probably contributed more to our overall understanding of the cosmos than any other single mission.Add to that that astronauts have done regular servicing of the facility and it has also proved a great training ground for NASA in developing missions that require ongoing service (as would be the case for ISS and any lunar bases)

ADDED: to the guy who said something about gravitational lensing - what the h*** does that have to do with observing the heavens. I didn;t say contirbutions to cosmology - but to our understanding of the cosmos (i.e. the universe in all its glory). If you are going to dispute other peoples answers, at least make sure you understand them

Answer 9

NASA's greatest achievement was i know this is going to seem weird to some people but it was just getting into space.

Answer 10

Velcro.