NASA/JPL

NASA/JPL is a joint partnership between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It specializes in both crewed and non-crewed spacecraft. JPL is a space probe agency while NASA maintains a strong space research contingent and has an astronaut corps but operates none of its own spacecraft. NASA is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and JPL is located in Pasadena, California on the campus of the California Institute of Technology. NASA was founded in 1958 while JPL was founded in 1936.