NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

62 Years at NASA and Still Going Strong


Jack Boyd Image credit: NASA Ames Research Center

Sixty-two years ago today, Jack Boyd, senior advisor to the Ames director, first reported to work at Moffett Field, the home of NASA's Ames Research Center. To get there, Boyd traveled on a transcontinental train from Virginia to the San Francisco Bay Area. While most of his classmates at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University chose to work close to home at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., Boyd struck out on his own, and trailblazed his way to Ames.

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NASA Ames and USDA Forest Service Receive 2009 FLC Award


Caption "The Wildfire Research and Applications Partnership (WRAP) project team standing in front of the Ikhana UAS at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. The team photo is composed of Ames, Dryden Flight Research Center and United States Forest Service members. The team is the recipient of the 2009 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Transfer's Interagency Partnership Award." Photo courtesy of NASA Dryden.

The Wildfire Research and Applications Partnership (WRAP) between NASA Ames and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has been chosen as the 2009 recipient of the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Transfer's Interagency Partnership Award. This award--one of the FLC's highest honors--recognizes the efforts of laboratory employees from at least two different agencies who have collaboratively accomplished outstanding work in the process of transferring a technology.

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Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet

Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, with an atmosphere so thin, any liquid water on the surface quickly boils away while the sun's ultraviolet radiation scorches the ground.

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