NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 95035-1000
USA
tel: +1 650 604-5000
fax: +1 650 604-4003
url: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/index.html
Dr. S. "Pete" Worden: Center Director
Lewis S. G. Braxton III: Deputy Center Director
About the Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center, one of 10 NASA field Centers, is located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. For over 60 years, Ames has led NASA in conducting world-class research and development. With 2500 employees and an annual budget of $900 million, Ames provides NASA with advancements in:
- Entry systems: Safely delivering spacecraft to Earth & other celestial bodies
- Supercomputing: Enabling NASA's advanced modeling and simulation
- NextGen air transportation: Transforming the way we fly
- Airborne science: Examining our own world & beyond from the sky
- Low-cost missions: Enabling high value science to low Earth orbit & the moon
- Biology & astrobiology: Understanding life on Earth -- and in space
- Exoplanets: Finding worlds beyond our own
- Autonomy & robotics: Complementing humans in space
- Lunar science: Rediscovering our moon
- Human factors: Advancing human-technology interaction for NASA missions
- Wind tunnels: Testing on the ground before you take to the sky
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