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Ames Open House Draws More Than 120,000 Guests -- Celebrating the Research Center’S 75Th Anniversary NASA Photos by Eric James NASA October 2014 - A Quarterly Publication Ames Open House draws more than 120,000 guests -- Celebrating the research center’s 75th anniversary NASA photos by Eric James NASA For the first time since 1997, NASA's Ames opened its gates Oct. 18, 2014 and shared its world- class space and aeronautics research campus with surrounding communities. An estimated 120,000 visitors attended the event, which featured exhibits highlighting Ames' space missions, a two-mile self-guided walking tour past facilities including huge wind tunnels and Ames' simulated Martian landscape, opportunities to visit with Ames engineers and scientists and family-friendly talks with Ames researchers. The event began with opening remarks by Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden, (middle right photo) and California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, California District 19, (top right photo). Participants learned more about Ames' major contributions to the International Space Station, the Curiosity Mars rover, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) orbiter, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) research aircraft and the planet-hunting Kepler mission, and saw demonstrations of technologies invented at Ames in the center's 75-year history. see additional Open House photos on pages 10 - 15 www.nasa.gov Visitors learn about Ames payloads aboard SpaceX-4 On Sept. 21, 2014, NASA's Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon of supplies, including new science Ames launched four life science spacecraft to the International Space experiments and technology re- payloads into space aboard NASA's Station. The company's fourth search. next commercial cargo resupply commercial resupply mission to the Members of the public were flight on the Space Exploration space station delivered several tons invited Sept. 19, (which was the original launch date but then post- poned to Sept. 21 due to inclement weather conditions) to the Ames Visitor Center for the initial sched- uled live, televised SpaceX launch. Guests however weren’t disap- pointed as they heard from a panel of space biosciences researchers who discussed the four life science research missions that Ames sent to the space station. These included a microbiology study of yeast, a fruit fly study designed and built by stu- dents, a plant biology investigation and the maiden voyage of NASA's new rodent research system. NASA photos by Eric James 2 Astrogram October 2014 Mountain View, Sunnyvale showcase Ames’ history Ames celebrated its 75th anniversary this year with a 17-piece “Living Museum.” The facility, in partnership with the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale, displayed 17 exhibits in these two cities during July 2014 to showcase engineering and scientific endeavors from the past and present at Ames Research Center. More than 300,000 people viewed the displays. Exhibits included a robotic aircraft exhibit and CheMin, a chemistry and min- eralogy instrument that was used on the Mars rover ‘Curiosity’ to analyze soil samples and look for signs of life. NASA photos by Dominic Hart NASA 3 Astrogram October 2014 Ames’ CBAERO is co-winner of 2014 NASA Software of Year Award BY KATHRYN SMYTH CBAERO: Configuration-Based Aerodynamics from NASA Ames was selected as a co-winner of the pres- tigious 2014 NASA Software of the Year Award competition sponsored by the NASA Chief Engineer, the NASA Chief Information Officer, and the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance. As a Center, we have enjoyed great success in previous NASA Software of the Year competitions. This award adds to our proud legacy. Former Ames winners include: • Incompressible Navier-Stokes Flow Solver in Three Dimensions (INS3D) (1994); • Flow Analysis SoftwareToolkit (FAST) (1995); • Center TRACON Automation System (1998); • Remote Agent (with JPL, 1999), Cart3D (2002); • Future Air Traffic Management Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) in all stages of design from conceptual the development of the government- (2006); to final design. CBAERO can run on provided aerothermal database for • Data Parallel Line Relaxation desktops as well as supercomputers. the NASA Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Code (DPLR) (2007); Analyses are ten times faster than (ORION). CBAERO had a part in • World Wind Java (2009); traditional methods and are of higher the development of commercial and • Kepler Science Operations Cen- fidelity. government launch vehicles, and ter (SOC) (2010); and CBAERO was transferred to U.S. spacecraft, including: SpaceX Dragon • NASA App (with JPL, 2012) industry, academia and government and Falcon 9, Sierra Nevada Dream agencies. More than 50 Software Us- Chaser, Virgin Galactic and Scaled The CBAERO team is comprised age Agreements have been executed Composites Space Ship, Aerospace of research scientist David J. Kin- to facilitate the use of CBAERO by Corporation military vehicles, and Or- ney (NASA/ARC) and aerospace major U.S. manufactures of aircraft, bital Sciences aerospace vehicles. engineer Loc C. Huynh (Space and helicopters and aerospace vehicles, CBAERO shares the honor of win- Technology Corporation). Their including Lockheed Martin, Pratt and ning the 2014 NASA Software of the outstanding work has made a signifi- Whitney, Blue Origin, LLC, ATK, Drap- Year Award with co-winner TASC: Tool cant and lasting contribution to Ames' er Laboratory, Torch Technologies, for Analysis of Surface Cracks from technology development portfolio and Inc., Space Exploration Technologies Marshall Space Flight Center. TASC is to NASA's leadership in providing a Corp (SpaceX) and Aerojet/Rocket- a computer program with a graphical game-changing rapid engineering tool dyne. Federal government agencies, user interface (GUI) that was created for accurate flight-proven designs. such as the Army, Air Force, Navy and using the commercial math analysis CBAERO enables smart, robust DARPA, all use CBAERO. software, Matlab. The program allows and fast vehicle analysis and design CBAERO also is being used at six a novice user, such as a laboratory of aircraft, suborbital and space vehi- universities as a core computational technician, without nonlinear fracture cles. The analyses from CBAERO are capability that provides students and mechanics modeling experience to based on the true vehicle configura- faculty the opportunity to investigate obtain a fast and reliable fracture tion, not an approximation. CBAERO challenging aerothermodynamics top- toughness solution. Congratulations to is used to select and size the thermal ics and obtain physical insights that MSFC! protection system of a vehicle, to help them develop professionally. At There will be a special awards determine the loads on a vehicle’s NASA, CBAERO is used to predict the ceremony for our CBAERO innovators structure, and to define the safe reen- convective and radiative heating envi- and recipients of other technology- try of an aerospace vehicle. It pre- ronments for the NASA Crew Explora- related awards here at Ames in mid- dicts the aerodynamic forces and the tion Vehicle (CEV) and supports the January 2015. aerothermal heating on aerospace NASA Commercial Orbital Transporta- vehicles entering any planetary body tion Services (COTS) program from its with an atmosphere. It can be used early inception. It is currently used in 4 Astrogram October 2014 Lunar Mission wins 2014 popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award BY RACHEL HOOVER LLCD demonstrated record-breaking planned. LADEE was designed for a NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and upload and download speeds. The relatively short mission, as the science Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) cooperative mission with a team from goals only required 100 days of data mission has received the Popular NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center collection. Mechanics 2014 Breakthrough Award and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory revealed "From beginning to end, LADEE for innovation in science and technol- the possibility of expanding broadband was a testament of unparalleled ogy. The 10th annual Breakthrough capabilities in future space communi- teamwork and unique innovation,” Awards recognize innovators, engi- cations development. said Joan Salute, LADEE program neers and scientists responsible for changing our world. The award acknowledges LADEE’s modular flexible construc- tion and laser data transfer capabil- ity, which can send and receive data more than six times faster than the quickest space-based radio signals. "We're proud of the LADEE mission's accomplishments and this recognition," said Ames Cen- ter Director S. Pete Worden, which designed, developed, built, integrated, tested and controlled the spacecraft. "LADEE may have been the first Ames-built spacecraft, but after the Kepler mission's win in 2009 and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sens- ing Satellite (LCROSS) mission's win in 2010, it's the third Ames mission to be honored with this award." LADEE launched in September 2013, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The car-sized lunar orbiter gathered detailed information on the structure and composition of our moon’s thin atmosphere and data to determine LADEE was built using an Ames- executive at NASA Headquarters in whether dust is being lofted into the developed Modular Common Space- Washington.” The mission established lunar sky. A thorough understanding craft Bus architecture -- a general a new technology paradigm, opening a of these characteristics of our nearest purpose spacecraft design that allows new chapter for spacecraft design and celestial neighbor will help research- NASA to develop,
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