NASA 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 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 /11 Kepler Flight Concept SSERVI Simulator Galileo 2000 Apollo Heat 1990 Shield Tests Mars Science Lab Sustainability Base Lifting Body Pioneer 1980 Transonic Human 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