News Archive / Tagged: Ames Research Center

• NASA Ames Celebrates 75th anniversary with open house

  Jim SharkeyOctober 21st, 2014

  NASA’s Ames Research Center welcomed about 120,000 visitors on Saturday, Oct. 18 during an Open House held in celebration of the Center’s 75th anniversary. The event featured a 2-mile self-guided walking tour, panel discussions, “Ask-An-Expert” sessions, static aircraft displays and “Backstage Pass” guided tours of Ames Research labs and wind-tunnel facilities. The role of Ames […]

• NASA’s Ames Research Center wins Popular Mechanics award for third time

  Rae Botsford EndOctober 10th, 2014

  NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission has been recognized as a recipient of the 2014 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards, a recognition that has applauded innovation in science and technology annually for the past ten years. The spacecraft was “designed, developed, built, integrated, tested and controlled” by NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett […]

• NASA to test out ‘Star Trek Replicator’ on International Space Station

  Jason RhianJune 25th, 2014

  NASA is planning on flying what the space agency has described as a “Star Trek” replicator to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Commercial Resupply Services 4 (SpX-4) set to launch this August from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. What is known as a 3-D printer will be sent […]

• Our Spaceflight Heritage: Pioneer 10, first to achieve escape velocity from the Solar System

  Heather SmithJune 13th, 2014

  On June 13, 1983, Pioneer 10 left the Solar System and began its journey into interstellar space after 30 years of flight. It succeeded as becoming the first spacecraft to survey Jupiter, Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to achieve escape velocity from the Solar System.

• Threat posed to NASA centers by Climate Change – likely decades off

  Jason RhianMay 24th, 2014

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — A recent report posted on the website Business Insider would have one believe that the launch sites at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the adjacent Kennedy Space Center along with other key NASA locations are in immediate danger by rising sea levels. The cause of this deluge is Global Warming, or as it […]

• Our Spaceflight Heritage: Pioneer, mapping the surface of Venus

  Heather SmithMay 20th, 2014

  On this day in 1978, the Pioneer Venus 1 spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket.

• HEART FLIES experiment to use fruit flies to study effects of space flight on heart

  Rae Botsford EndMay 6th, 2014

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — Another winner of Space Florida’s ISS Research Competition, Project HEART FLIES (Heart Effect Analysis Research Team conducting Fly Investigations and Experiments in Spaceflight), was involved in the CRS-3 trip to the ISS, which launched on Friday, April 18 and berthed on Sunday, April 20.

• CubeSats provide big opportunities in small packages

  James TuttenApril 26th, 2014

  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla — On April 18, 2014 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX ) launched one of the company’s Falcon 9 v1.1 rockets from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. Perched atop was one of the NewSpace firm’s Dragon spacecraft. While much was made about the primary payload of scientific equipment, components, […]

• Kepler Space Telescope discovers Earth-sized Planet in star’s habitable zone

  SpaceFlight InsiderApril 17th, 2014

  Today, astronomers working with the Kepler space telescope announced the discovery of the first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of its host star. A star’s habitable zone is the area around a star where the conditions would be ideal for liquid water to pool on the planet’s surface. Many factors contribute to a planet’s […]

• NASA Administrator Bolden visits NASA Ames

  Jim SharkeyMarch 19th, 2014

  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden paid a visit to NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) on Monday, March 17. Bolden spoke at an all-hands meeting of center staff and toured laboratories conducting research at Ames.  The tour focused on robotics research currently being conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and the development of NextGen Air Traffic […]

• How Did Life Arise? Fuel Cells May Have Answers

  Press ReleaseMarch 15th, 2014

  How life arose from the toxic and inhospitable environment of our planet billions of years ago remains a deep mystery. Researchers have simulated the conditions of an early Earth in test tubes, even fashioning some of life’s basic ingredients. But how those ingredients assembled into living cells, and how life was first able to generate […]

• NASA to discuss Earth science help for California drought

  Press ReleaseFebruary 25th, 2014

  NASA officials will participate in a media briefing at 9:30 a.m. PST Tuesday, Feb. 25 about the agency’s work to use its Earth observation assets to help the state of California better manage its water resources and monitor and respond to its ongoing drought.

• NASA Observatory Selects Educator Teams for 2014 Science Flights

  Press ReleaseJanuary 10th, 2014

  NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, will become a flying classroom for teachers during research flights in the next few months.

• NASA’s Fermi Makes First Gamma-ray Study of a Gravitational Lens

  Press ReleaseJanuary 9th, 2014

  An international team of astronomers, using NASA’s Fermi observatory, has made the first-ever gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens, a kind of natural telescope formed when a rare cosmic alignment allows the gravity of a massive object to bend and amplify light from a more distant source.

• NASA selects contractors for facility construction at Ames

  Press ReleaseDecember 6th, 2013

  NASA has selected four California companies to perform facility construction and modifications at the agency’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.