NASA Ames Research Center An Overview

Dr. Eugene Tu, Director NASA Centers

Glenn Research Goddard Space Center Flight Center

HQ Langley NASA Ames Research Research Center Center Armstrong Flight Marshall Space Research Center Flight Center Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Stennis Kennedy Space Center Johnson Space Center Space Center Ames is One of the Early NACA Laboratories

Joseph S. Ames

NACA Langley Ames Lewis Dryden NASA

1915 1939 1940 1946 1958 3 79 Years of Innovation Lunar SOFIA Apollo Prospector Tektites Guidance X-36 System 2015

Blunt Body Space Biology Pioneer 10/11 Kepler Flight Concept SSERVI Simulator Galileo 2000 Apollo Heat 1990 Shield Tests Mars Science Lab Sustainability Base Lifting Body Pioneer 1980 Transonic Human Venus Flow Centered Computing Viking Life Sciences 1970 IRIS Flight Research Aero Research Air NASA Institute 1960 Transportation Nanotechnology Research System Park Swept- LCROSS Back/Wing Apollo Tiltrotor ISS Re-Entry Shape CFD 1950 ER-2 LADEE Astrobiology Hypervelocity Institute Conical Camber Free Flight Kuiper Observatory 80x120 Wind Tunnel Arcjet Quantum Pleiades 1940 Research Computing Ames Research Center

• Occupants: • ~1200 civil servants; ~1,400 contractors; ~1,600 tenants • 855 summer students in 2016 • FY2018 Budget: ~$918M (including reimbursable/EUL) • ~1,900 acres (400 acres security perimeter); 5M building ft2

• Airfield: ~9,000 and 8,000 ft. runways 5 Core Competencies at Ames Today

Air Traffic Management Advanced Computing Entry Systems & IT Systems Intelligent/ Adaptive Systems

Astrobiology and Life Science Cost-Effective Space Missions Aerosciences Space and Earth Sciences Major Research Facilities

Advanced Wind Tunnels ARC Jet Complex Range Complex Simulators Supercomputing Academia Partnerships at Ames International Virtual Institutes Inter-Agency

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