NASA Ames Research Center | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-02

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00:01:57 1 Missions
00:07:04 2 Air traffic control automation research
00:08:57 3 Information technology
00:12:04 4 Image processing
00:12:33 5 Wind tunnels
00:12:56 5.1 ARC Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
00:13:45 5.2 National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC)
00:17:11 6 Arc Jet Complex
00:20:35 7 Range complex
00:20:44 7.1 Ames Vertical Gun Range
00:22:54 7.2 Hypervelocity Free-Flight Range
00:25:58 7.3 Electric Arc Shock Tube
00:27:08 8 United States Geological Survey (USGS)
00:28:04 9 Education
00:28:13 9.1 NASA Ames Exploration Center
00:29:02 9.2 Robotics Alliance Project
00:30:38 10 Recent events
00:32:44 11 Public-private partnerships
00:33:56 11.1 Google
00:36:15 12 Living and working at Ames
00:36:48 13 See also



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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 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory. That agency was dissolved and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA Ames is named in honor of Joseph Sweetman Ames, a physicist and one of the founding members of NACA. At last estimate NASA Ames has over US$3 billion in capital equipment, 2,300 research personnel and a US$860 million annual budget.
Ames was founded to conduct wind-tunnel research on the aerodynamics of propeller-driven aircraft; however, its role has expanded to encompass spaceflight and information technology. Ames plays a role in many NASA missions. It provides leadership in astrobiology; small satellites; robotic lunar exploration; the search for habitable planets; supercomputing; intelligent/adaptive systems; advanced thermal protection; and airborne astronomy. Ames also develops tools for a safer, more efficient national airspace. The center's current director is Eugene Tu.The site is mission center for several key current missions (Kepler, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) and a major contributor to the "new exploration focus" as a participant in the Orion crew exploration vehicle.