NASA Ames Research Center An Overview
Dr. Eugene Tu, Director
Goddard Institute for Space Studies NASA Centers andPlum Brook Installations Independent Glenn Research Station Verification and Center Ames Validation Facility Research Center Goddard Space Flight Center
Headquarters
Jet Propulsion Wallops Laboratory Flight Facility Kennedy Space Center Langley Armstrong Flight Research Research Center Center Johnson Space Stennis White Sands Michoud Marshall Space Center Space Center Test Facility Assembly Flight Center Facility Ames is One of the Early NACA Laboratories
Joseph S. Ames
NASA NACA Langley Ames Lewis Dryden
1915 1939 1940 1946 1958 75 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 Viking Computing Life Sciences IRIS Research 1970 Flight 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 • Occupants: ~1130 civil servants; ~2,100 contractors;1,650 tenants Ames Research Center 855 summer students in 2016 • FY2016 Budget: ~$915M (including reimbursable/EUL) • ~1,900 acres (400 acres security perimeter); 5M building ft2 • Airfield: ~9,000 and 8,000 ft runways 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 Partnerships at Ames Inter-Agency Commercial Virtual Institutes NASA Research Park International
Bay View Eastside/ Airfield
NASA Ames Campus
Shenandoah Historic District
NRP South Campus Academia