NASA Ames Research Center NASA Advisory Council October 29, 2009

NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Seven Decades of Innovation NASA 2010 Tektites Apollo Lunar Guidance System Science Institute X-36 2000 Blunt Body Human Centered Computing Flight Simulator Concept Pioneer SOFIA

Apollo Heat Galileo 1990 Shield Tests Lunar Prospector Lifting Body Viking 1980 Transonic Flow Pioneer Venus Air Kepler Transportation System Flight Life Sciences 1970 Nanotechnology Research Research NASA Research Park Tiltrotor 1960 Swept- LCROSS Back/Wing Apollo Kuiper Observatory Re-Entry Shape ER-2 Astrobiology Institute 1950 CFD

Conical Camber LADEE 1940 One of the World’s Fastest Arcjet Research Hypervelocity Free Flight 80x120 Wind Tunnel Operational Supercomputers Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Lunar Kinetic Impactor Mission employed to reveal the presence and nature of water ice on the Moon. LCROSS piggybacked on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

April 2009 Launch October 2009 Impact Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Will seek new information about the tenuous lunar atmosphere and dust environment before that environment is altered by extended human activity on the Moon. Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Educational Activities

Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP) JASON Project Summer High School Apprentice Research Program (SHARP) Student Space Biology Research Program (Ames PAO Education Program Foothill DeAnza Internship Program

NASA Explorer Schools Ames Cooperative Education Programs

Ames Exploration Robotics Alliance Project Encounter Stanford Visiting Professors Programs First MOU with Santa California Academic Clara University Partnership Program Aero Expo Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley