NASA Ames Research Center
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NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) is a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, which spans the borders of the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale in California.
ARC was founded on December 20, 1939 as the second laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and moved to NASA in 1958. The Sunnyvale site at Moffett Field was selected in October 1939 by the Charles Lindbergh Committee established by an act of the U.S. Congress in August 1939. The Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (now the Ames Research Center) was named after Joseph Sweetman Ames, the president of Johns Hopkins University from 1929 to 1935, and longtime NACA chairman.
ARC is active in aeronautical research, life sciences, space science, and technology research, especially information technology, including machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Center houses the world's largest wind tunnel, part of the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC). Although decommissioned by NASA in 2003, the NFAC is now being operated by the U. S. Air Force as a satellite facility of the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC).
The buildings at Moffett Field consist of those belonging to NASA proper, including the wind tunnels and other core research facilities, as well as an academic research park intended to foster collaborations with universities. Members of this Ames campus include Carnegie Mellon West, and the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), administered by the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Although the Bush Administration has slightly increased funding for NASA overall, the substantial realignment in research priorities which followed the announcement of the Vision for Space Exploration in 2004 has led to a significant number of layoffs at Ames.
On September 28, 2005, both Google and Ames Research Center disclosed details to a long-term research partnership. In addition to pooling engineering talent, Google plans to build a 1-million square foot facility on the ARC campus.[link]
External links
- [Ames Research Center]
- [University Affiliated Research Center]
- The links below are whole books online; scroll down on their title pages to see the "table of contents" links.
- * [Adventures in Research: A History of Ames Research Center, 1940-1965 (NASA SP-4302, 1970)]
- * [Atmosphere of Freedom: Sixty Years at the NASA Ames Research Center (NASA SP-4314, 2000)]
- * [Flight Research at Ames, 1940-1997: Fifty-Seven Years of Development and Validation of Aeronautical Technology (NASA SP-3300, 1998)]
- *[Searching the Horizon: A History of Ames Research Center 1940-1976 (NASA SP-4304, 1985)]
- * Satellite image from [WikiMapia], [Google Maps] or [Windows Live Local]
- * Street map from [MapQuest] or [Google Maps]
- * Topographic map from [TopoZone]
- * Aerial image from [TerraServer-USA]
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