12 Nations

• Australia • Brazil • Canada • China (Shenzhen) • France • India • Japan • Russia (Mir-3) • United Kingdom • United States • Uganda • Venezuela

Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia.


 * NGO: ASRI (Australian Space Research Institute)
 * Agency CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

Brazil
The Federal Republic of Brazil.


 * AEB (Agência Espacial Brasileira)

Canada
The Commonwealth of Canada.


 * CSA ASC (Canadian Space Agency agence spatiale canadienne)

China
The People’s Republic of China (PRC).


 * CNSA (China National Space Administration)(Chinese: 国家航天局; pinyin: Guó Jiā Háng Tiān Jú; literally: “National Astronautics Bureau”)

Shenzhen
Shenzhen (Chinese: 神镇; pinyin: Shénzhèn; literally: “divine-town”) was a Chinese space station, and one of the 12 national space stations that The Grounders joined together to form the Ark.

France
The French Republic.


 * CNES (centre national d'études spatiales)

India
The Republic of India (Bharat Ganrajya).


 * ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation); Sanskrit: भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन (Bhāratīya Antarikṣa Anusandhāna Saṅgaṭhana)

Japan
Japan (Japanese: 日本 (Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 (Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, literally “[the] State of Japan”).


 * JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency); Japanese: 独立行政法人 宇宙航空研究開発機構 (Dokuritsu-gyōsei-hōjin Uchū Kōkū Kenkyū Kaihatsu Kikō; literally: “Independent Administrative Institution Aerospace Research and Development”)

Russia
Russia (Russian: Россия (Rossiya); officially the Russian Federation (Российская Федерация (Rossiyskaya Federatsiya)).


 * ФКА (Федеральное космическое агентство России); FKA (Federal'noye kosmicheskoye agentstvo Rossii); Russian Federal Space Agency, commonly called Roscosmos (Роскосмос; “Russpace”)
 * ИКИ РАН (Институт космических исследований Российской Академии Наук); IKI RAN (“Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences”)
 * ВКО (Войска воздушно-космической обороны); VKO (Voyska Vozdushno-Kosmicheskoy Oborony; “Russian Aerospace Defense Forces”)

Mir-3
Mir-3 (Russian: Мир-3; literally: “peace” or “world”) was a Russian space station, and one of the 12 national space stations that The Grounders joined together to form the Ark. Mir-3 was launched 130 years ago, and salvaged in 2102.

United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, also known as the United Kingdom (UK), or just Britain. The island of Great Britain consisted of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales.


 * UKSA (United Kingdom Space Agency)

United States


The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly referred to as the United States (US or U.S.), America, and sometimes the States.


 * United States at Wikipedia
 * NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
 * AFSPC (Air Force Space Command)
 * NRO (National Reconnaissance Office)
 * SMDC (Space and Missile Defense Command)
 * USSTRATCOM (United States Strategic Command)

Uganda
The Republic of Uganda was a landlocked nation in equatorial East Africa. Due to being on the equator, Uganda is ideally sited for a spaceport launching payloads into geostationary orbit. As of 2014, this had never been pursued because of political instability in the country, although Uganda was active in the development of Space Law.

By the time of the nuclear apocalypse, the Ugandan Space Initiative was large enough to suport one of the worlds 13 manned national space stations.


 * Ugandan space initiatives (a group of small NGO's in 2014)

Venezuela

 * ABAE (Agencia Bolivariana para Actividades Espaciales)
 * IVIC (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas)