On April 13 - April 14, 2007, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., hosted a major celebration of space exploration commemorating humankind’s first flight into space by Russian cosmonaut Y...
Life Sciences SSBRP petri dish specimens w/red LED lights.
APV-3 demo flights at Moffett Air Field.
Searching for clues to the potential for life on Mars, NASA scientists recently explored microbial communities in some of the world’s oldest, driest and most remote deserts, in China’s northwest regio...
Trajectory Oriented Operations with limited delegation simulation in Airspace Operations lab with Jeff Homola on August 2006.
Members of the Space Cookies, Team 1868, share their experiences as a NASA Ames/Girl Scouts FIRST Robotics team with NASA Deputy Administator Shana Dale. The Team will be competing at the FIRST Silico...
NASA officials signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with a U.S. company, Virgin Galactic, LLC, to explore the potential for collaborations on the development of space suits, heat shields for s...
... NASA's first mission capable of finding Earth-size and smaller planets around other stars.
The centuries-old quest for other worlds like our Earth has been rejuvenated by the intense e...
Peter Race polishing the slug calorimeter on the overhead swing arm inside the NASA Ames aerodynamic heating facility (AHF) test box prior to testing. The AHF is part of the Thermal Protection Simulat...
The Columbia supercomputer is a 10240-processor SGI Altix located at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility at NASA Ames Research Center. NASA's most powerful supercomputer was named to honor...
GeneSat-1 payload assembly with Chris Beasley in Gene Sat Test and Integration Lab N 240.
The photochemistry of CH4 and CO2 may have produced an organic haze layer on the early Earth.
Reporter Karina Rusk of KGO-TV, channel 7, ABC, San Francisco, interviews John Hines of Ames who is the project manager for GeneSat.
Photomicrography of gas pockets entrapped in a crystal. (AC93-0189-1)
Orion approaches the International Space Station. Photo credit: Lockheed Martin Corp.
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A FACET snapshot of air traffic over the United States on July 10, 2006 at 2:45 p.m. EST/ 11:45 a.m. PST.
Memorandum of Understanding with AirLaunch LLC
NASA announced July 26, 2006 that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with AirLaunch LLC, Kirkland, Wash., to explore collaborations ...
Ames' contributions to STS-1
NASA Ames' wind tunnels played a key role in defining shuttle aerondynamics and design of the orbiter. The awesome 36 percent scale model of the orbiter - 44 f...
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Stardust Capsule Return as seen from ...
Strange stuff called 'aerogel' that looks like a semi-transparent, blue cloud, but that is solid, is carrying captured comet dust to Earth for a Jan. 15, 2006, landing in a Utah desert.