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  2. Ames Research Center - Wikipedia

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    The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 [1] as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory. That agency was dissolved and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created ...

  3. Ames National Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    Ames National Laboratory. Ames National Laboratory, formerly Ames Laboratory, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Ames, Iowa, and affiliated with Iowa State University. It is a top-level national laboratory for research on national security, energy, and the environment. The laboratory conducts research into ...

  4. Langley Research Center - Wikipedia

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    Langley Research Center. The Langley Research Center (LaRC or NASA Langley), located in Hampton, Virginia, near the Chesapeake Bay front of Langley Air Force Base, is the oldest of NASA 's field centers. [1] LaRC has focused primarily on aeronautical research but has also tested space hardware such as the Apollo Lunar Module.

  5. NASA Research Park - Wikipedia

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    Congress established the Ames Research Center (Ames) in 1939 as the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory under the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Ames has grown to occupy approximately 500 acres (2.0 km 2) at Moffett Field, adjacent to the Naval Air Station Moffett Field in Santa Clara County, California, in the center of the region that would, in the 1990s, become known as ...

  6. NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division - Wikipedia

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    The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division is located at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California.It has been the major supercomputing and modeling and simulation resource for NASA missions in aerodynamics, space exploration, studies in weather patterns and ocean currents, and space shuttle and aircraft design and development for ...

  7. NASA Sustainability Base - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 37°24′40″N 122°3′42″W. NASA Sustainability Base is located on the campus of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. [1] It was named in recognition of the first human outpost on the moon, Tranquility Base. [2] It was designed to exhibit and test the latest energy-saving technologies as part of the ...

  8. Timeline of Ames Research Center - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of Ames Research Center. As the coalition of Bay Areas counties predicted when it lobbied for the creation of Moffett Federal Airfield in the late 1920s, the base's research program and facilities catalyzed the development of numerous private technology and aerospace corporations, among them Lockheed Martin and the Hiller Aircraft ...

  9. Nexus for Exoplanet System Science - Wikipedia

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    US$10–12 million [ 1] Website. NExSS. The Nexus for Exoplanet System Science ( NExSS) initiative is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA) virtual institute designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in the search for life on exoplanets. Led by the Ames Research Center, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, and the ...