Circa 1934 photo of Hangar One with the dirigible U.S.S. Macon. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
Topics: Hangar One, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2008/hangar_one_15.html
Artist: Ken Hodges Galileo Probe descending into Jupiters Atmosphere shows heat shield separation with parachute deployed, as it "hangs on the shrouds" and samples the atmosphere of the largest planet in the solar system and key moment in the flight of Galileo. The probe will enter the sunlit side of Jupiter's atmosphere and provide the first direct sampling of the planet's atmosphere. Jet Propulsion Laboratory has over-all management responsibility for Galileo. NASA's Ames Research...
Topics: What -- Galileo, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Virtual Environment Reality workstation technology (helmet & gloves)
Photographer: NACA photographer Construction of the Ames Full-Scale 40x80ft Wind tunnel. - side view of entrance cone, blimp in background
LCROSS project scientists Anthony Colaprete and Dr. Kim Ennico review early results from the centaur and spacecraft impacts. Image credit: Dominic Hart / NASA Ames
Topics: What -- Centaur, What -- Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/LCROSS_SOC.html
NASA's Ames Research Center employees formed a ''70'' in commemoration of the center's platinum anniversary. Photo credit: Eric James / NASA
Topic: Ames Research Center (ARC)
› View Landing Video Space shuttle Endeavour kicks up dust as it touches down at Edwards Air Force Base in California to end the STS-126 mission, completing its 16-day journey of over 6.6 million miles in space. Image credit: NASA/Tony Landis Nov. 30, 2008
Topics: Endeavour, landing, STS-126, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Endeavour, What -- STS-126,...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/multimedia/images/08-11-30-1.html
NASA Ames Hyperwall II showing fires world wide
It all started on May 25, 1961, when President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade. Coming just three weeks after Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space, Kennedy's bold challenge set the nation on a journey unlike any before in human history. Eight years of hard work by thousands of Americans came to fruition on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong stepped out of the lunar module and took...
Topics: Who -- Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Who -- Neil A. Armstrong, What -- Moon, What -- Mercury, What --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/470923main_69-HC-898[1]_full.jpg
This is a single crystal, about 6 cm tall, purity grade 99.99% that NASA Ames Research Center's Friedemann Freund grew in the early 1980s. There are tiny bubbles in the center of this large crystal that Freund infused into the crystal. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
Topics: Crystal, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/crystal.html
In January 2011, researchers from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif. tested a future aircraft concept model. The model, called AMELIA (Advanced Model for Extreme Lift and Improved Aeroacoustics), has a 10-foot wing span and is 1/13th scale. It was tested in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex. AMELIA was designed as a 100-passenger regional cruise efficient, short takeoff and landing airliner. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2012/iotw/cal_poly_amelia_model.html
An F/A-18 mission support aircraft shadows NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP during a functional check flight in restricted airspace near Edwards Air Force Base and the Dryden Flight Research Center on Dec. 9, 2009. The flight included an evaluation of the aircraft's systems, including engines, flight controls and communication. Credit: NASA / Jim Ross
Topics: Edwards Air Force Base, Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
Schilieren photograph of an F11F-1 Tiger at Mach 1.4 in the 1-foot by 3-foot wind tunnel at NASA Ames. This image was taken in February 1965. Image source: NASA
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/tiger_at_mach_1.html
Blimp inside Hangar One. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
Topics: Macon, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2008/macon_14.html
U.S.S. Macon leaving south circle near Hangar One on March 21, 1933. Photo Credit: U.S. Navy
Topic: Hangar One
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2008/hangar_one_2.html
Photographer: N/A Pioneer F/G Plaque: Pioneer 10 the first spacecraft to leave our solar system carries a message to other worlds. The plaque was designed by Drs. Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, the artwork was prepared by Linda Salzman Sagan.
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Topic: What -- Pioneer 10
Crew of U.S.S. Macon inside Hangar One with Macon dirigible on June 6, 1934. Photo Credit: U.S. Navy
Topic: Hangar One
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2008/hangar_one_73.html
Photographer: N/A Lockheed Vega Cockpit
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Topic: What -- VEGA
Reeves Electronic Analog Computer (REAC), Ames' first electronic computing machine, was acquired in 1949 to perform control simulation analysis. Photo Credit: NASA
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/reeves.html
Hubert Vykukal (designer) demonstrates mobility of the Hardsuit AX-3 Space Suit design
Yuri's night will be at NASA Ames Research Center on April 10, 2010. This guest came in costume to a previous Yuri's night event. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Paul Langston
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/silver_guy.html
Nineteen teams pushed their robot competitors to the limit, and three teams claimed a total of ,000 in NASA prizes at this year's Regolith Excavation Challenge on Oct. 17-18. This is the first time in the competition's three-year history that any team qualified for a cash prize, the largest NASA has awarded to date. After two days of intense competition hosted at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., organizers conferred first place prize of ,000 to Paul's Robotics of Worcester,...
Topics: What -- Terra, What -- Moon, What -- REX, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- Little Rock
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/regolith3.html
This image of candidate craters is based on current information about the age, depth and structure of the selected craters. Approximately 30 days before impact, the LCROSS science team will announce the selection of the final impact crater. The selection will take into account any additional information, especially from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, collected about the candidate craters.
Topic: What -- Crater
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/LCROSS_Crater_candidates.html
Nichelle Nichols attended a festive gala to celebrate Ames 70th anniversary on Jan. 23, 2010. Nichols played Lt. Uhura, fourth in command of the Starship Enterprise, in the legendary TV series Star Trek. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, her role became ''the first non-stereotypical role portrayed by a black women in television history.'' She successfully helped NASA recruit the first women and minority astronauts for the Space Shuttle Program, for which she received NASA's distinguished...
Topics: What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/uhura.html
Photographer: JPL This is a computer-generated perspective rendering of one of the caldera-like depressions on Triton, as it would appear if viewed from the northeast. The image was obtained by geometrically reprojecting part of a Voyager high-resolution frame taken Aug. 24, 1989, when the spacecraft was about 181,800 km (112,900 miles) from Triton. Information about surface topography needed to generate the oblique view was obtained from the same image by the technique called photoclinometry...
Topics: What -- Voyager, What -- Sun, What -- Crater
This mid-infrared image of the W3A star cluster in the inset was captured by the FORCAST camera on the SOFIA flying observatory in 2011. It is overlaid on a near-infrared image of the W3 star-forming region from the Spitzer space telescope. The SOFIA image scale is 150 x 100 arcseconds, and the red, green and blue colors represent 37, 20 and 7 μm. The red, green and blue colors in the background image from Spitzer represent 7.9, 4.5, 3.6 μm. SOFIA image: NASA / DLR / USRA / DSI / FORCAST team...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2012/iotw/SOFIA_W3_star_forming_perseus.html
Riding atop its modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, the space shuttle Endeavour touches down on the runway of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Dec. 12, 2008
Topics: Endeavour, landing, STS-126, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Endeavour, What -- STS-126,...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/multimedia/images/08-12-12-1.html
Construction of Hangar One at NAS Sunnyvale circa 1931 - 1934
Photographer: Apollo Astronauts Earth raising as seen for the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission
Topics: What -- Apollo 11, What -- Earth
Test pilot Lawrence A. Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, Calif. Image Credit: NACA
Topics: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- Moffet Field
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/clousing.html
PHOTO BY APOLLO 14 CREW ASTRONAUT ALAN B. SHEPARD STANDING WITH AMERICAN FLAG ON LUNAR SURFACE
Topic: What -- Apollo 14
On Feb. 16, 2010 NASA Ames Research Center hosted a media event about truck tests that were done in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex. In this shot, the smoke shows how air flows around the truck. Photo Credit: NASA
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/llnl_smoke_truck_test.html
On Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 NASA Ames Research Center celebrated its 70-year anniversary with a parade of antique cars. Pete Worden gives a thumbs up as he gets into one of the classic cars for the parade. Photo Credit: NASA
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/pete_worden_classic_car.html
Happy Holidays from NASA's Ames Research Center. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
On Dec. 12, 2009, NASA Ames Research Center's Hangar N211 was transformed into the 'North Pole' for the annual Cops Care Cancer Foundation Christmas Fantasy Flight for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
Topics: cancer, Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Photo by Apollo 17 Earth
Topics: What -- Apollo 17, What -- Earth
Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer 10 Crosses the Asteriod Belt: If spacecraft are to visit the outer Solar System, they must cross the asteroid belt between Mars and Jpiter. The Pioneer mission was faced with the question of just how dangerous this astroid belt would be to a spacecraft passing throught it. Note: used in NASA SP-349 "Pioneer Odyssey - Encounter with a Giant" fig. 1-24 and SP-446 " Pioneer - First to Jupiter, Saturn, and Beyond" fig 1-24
Topics: What -- Pioneer 10, What -- Mars
In celebration of NASA Ames' 70th anniversary, 12 businesses in downtown Mountain View are showcasing exhibits of the center's past. Shown here is a spacesuit replica at Red Rock Cafe. Photo credit: NASA/Dominic Hart
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/70th_exhibits.html
Jack Boyd recently celebrated his 63rd anniversary as an employee at NASA Ames Research Center. Boyd currently works as senior advisor to the Ames center director. In this photograph, taken in 1957, Jack Boyd explains the efficiencies of conical camber. Photo Credit: NASA
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/jack_boyd.html
External Tank 130 arrives in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ET 130, which will be used on the Hubble servicing mission, STS-125, will be moved into a high bay for checkout. Image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller Dec. 4, 2008
Topics: Hubble, external tank, space shuttle, What -- STS-125, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, Where --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/multimedia/images/08-12-4.html
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited NASA's Ames Research Center on Oct. 29, 2009 and spoke before a capacity crowd at the center's main auditorium.
Topics: Who -- Charles Bolden, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/charles_bolden.html
Cicra 1968 - 1969: Biosatellite model with monkey shown in the front of the capsule and the life spport package in the rear.
Dr. Norman Banks from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation gave a presentation at NASA Ames Research Center on Jan. 10, 2010 about the influence that Martin Luther King had on his life growing up in Los Angeles, Calif. Photo Credit: NASA
Topics: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- Los Angeles
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/mlk_2010.html
Space shuttle Discovery is silhouetted against Florida's pre-dawn, cloud-streaked sky as it makes the slow 3.4-mile trek to Launch Pad 39A. The shuttle travels atop the mobile launcher platform, which is moved by the massive crawler-transporter beneath. Discovery is targeted to launch on mission STS-119 to the International Space Station in February. During Discovery's 14-day mission, the crew will install the final truss segment and its solar arrays to the starboard side of the station. The...
Topics: Discovery, space shuttle, STS-119, rollout, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Discovery, What...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/multimedia/images/09-01-14.html
Ames Earth Resources project U-2 aircraft shot this oblique image off the coast of California, USA in 1972. The Golden Gate is in the foreground. As the image looks out across California the blue spot at the top enter is Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
Topics: What -- Earth, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- California, Where -- Nevada
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/earth_resources_project.html
Hubert Vykukal (designer) demonstrates mobility of the Hardsuit AX-3 Space Suit design
Artist: unknown (JPL) Saturn Voyager Mission Artwork depicts the spacecraft's path on it's journey to Saturn as it passed above the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and around Jupiter.
Topics: What -- Saturn, What -- Voyager, What -- Mars, What -- Jupiter, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
Photographer : JPL This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 270 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped onto a computer-simulated globe to create this image. Data gaps are filled with Pioneer-Venus orbiter data, or a constant mid-range value. Simulated color is used to inhance small-scale structure. The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft.
Topics: What -- Venus, What -- Magellan, What -- Pioneer Venus Orbiter, What -- Venera 13, Where -- Jet...
NASA's Ames Research Center is located at Moffett Field, in California’s Silicon Valley. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics selected Ames to be its second aeronautical research laboratory on Dec. 20, 1939. Ames became part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) when that agency was formed in 1958. This shot shows NASA Ames' Building 17, which houses the NASA Lunar Science Institute with Hangar One in background at sunrise on Dec. 2, 2011. Photo Credit: NASA...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2011/iotw/ames_lawn_hangar_one.html
Photographer : JPL Range : 1 illion km. ( 600,000 mi. ) Resolution : 140 km. ( 90 mi. ) P-29539C This Voyager 2 image of Uranus was captured as the spacecraft was leaving Uranus behind on its cruise to Neptune. The image is a color composite of three photographs taken through blue, grren, and orange filters. Thin thin crecent seen here is at an angle of 153 degrees between the the spacecraft, the planet, and the sun. Even at this extreme angle, uranus retains the pale blue-green color seen by...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Uranus, What -- Neptune, What -- Sun, What -- Jupiter, What -- Saturn,...
NASA AMES HAZMAT (Hazardous Materials) PLSS pack with Doug Smith at FMC test ground
In the upper levels of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery is moved toward high bay 3 where the external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters are already stacked on the mobile launcher platform. Discovery is set to launch on mission STS-119 carrying the final starboard truss, S6, in the assembly of the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller Jan. 8, 2009
Topics: Discovery, STS-119, launch, space shuttle, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Discovery, What...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/multimedia/images/09-01-08.html
Photographer: JPL P-34578 BW One of two new ring arcs, or partial rings, discovered by Voyager 2, is faintly visible just outside the orbit of the Neptunian moon 1989N4.The 155-second exposure taken by the spacecraft's narrow-angle camera shows the glare of an overexposed Neptune to the right of the moon and ring arc. The two bright streaks below the moon and ring arc are stars. The ring arc is approximately 50,000 kilometers (30,000 miles) long. The second ring arc, not apparent here, is about...
Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Moon, What -- Neptune, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Roger Hunter, Kepler project manager, toasts the one-year anniversary of the NASA Kepler Mission. Looking forward to another year of discoveries. Photo Credit: NASA
Topic: What -- Kepler
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/roger_hunter.html
Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator, shares the preliminary results from the Oct. 9 LCROSS impacts at a press conference on Nov. 13 at NASA's Ames Research Center. Photo credit: NASA / Dominic Hart
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/LCROSS_press_conference.html
View of the OS2U-2 with varicam tail .3/4 Front view.
Northrop N9M-2 airplane; 3/4 front view from below.
Topic: Northrop airplane
View of the OS2U-2 with varicam tail .3/4 rear view.
Artist: unknown (JPL) Saturn Voyager Mission Artwork depicts the spacecraft's path on it's journey to Saturn as it passed above the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and around Jupiter.
Topics: What -- Saturn, What -- Voyager, What -- Mars, What -- Jupiter, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
General view of the P-75 airplane .3/4 Front view.
Construction of Hangar One at NAS Sunnyvale circa 1931 - 1934
Photo by Voyager 1 (JPL) The spacecraft took this photo of the planet Jupiter on Jan 24, while still more than 25 million miles (40 million kilometers) away. As the spacecraft draws closer to the planet (about 1 million kilometers a day) more details are emergng in the turbulent clouds. The Great Red Spot shows prominently below center, surrounded by what scientists call a remarkably complex region of the giant planet's atmosphere. An elongated yellow cloud within the Great Red Spot is swirling...
Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Jupiter, What -- Ganymede, What -- Mercury, Where -- Jet Propulsion...
HAZMAT Suit, PLSS Pack & Vehicle at FMC with Doug Smith)
General view showing P-51-B airplane being weighed,gear up. Rear view.
Construction of Hangar One at NAS Sunnyvale circa 1932 - 1934 photos provided from private collection with permission to use by NASA Ames Research Center
Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Ames Earth Resources project U-2 aircraft shot this oblique image off the coast of California, USA in 1972. The Golden Gate is in the foreground. As the image looks out across California the blue spot at the top center is Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
Topics: Earth Resources Project, What -- Earth, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- California,...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/earth_resources_project.html
PHOTOGRAPHER: TRW PIONEER 10 SPACECRAFT FINAL ASSEMBLY AT TRW (TRW SYSTEMS GROUP, REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA DESIGNED AND FABRICATED THE PIONEER SPACECRAFT)
Topics: What -- Pioneer 10, Where -- California
View of the OS2U-2 with varicam tail .Side view.
Composite Pioneer 10 imagery Excitement rose as the PICS displayed images of Jupiter of ever-increasing size as Pioneer 10 plunged at high speed toward its closest approach to the planet. The most dramatic moment was perhaps after closest approach and after the spacecraft has been hidden behind Jupiter. PICS (Pioneer Image Converter System) began to show a few spots on the screens, which gradually built up into a very distorted crescent-shaped Jupiter. "Sunrise on Jupiter," exclaimed...
Topics: What -- Pioneer 10, What -- Jupiter
Wendy Dolci holds up two mascots from the Kuiper Airborne Observatory during the KAO time capsule opening ceremony on Nov. 10, 2010. The kiwi and koala were given by friends in New Zealand and Australia to the KAO crew members. It's estimated that the koala mascot flew four million miles on the KAO. Photo credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Eric James
Topics: Where -- New Zealand, Where -- Australia, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/501183main_ACD10-0215-013_full.jpg
Mark Leon, project manager of the Robotics Alliance Project, served as the master of ceremonies at the FIRST robotics competition on March 30, 2010 at the San Jose State University Event Center. This robot named Gizmo belongs to Team 254, the Cheesy Poofs. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / John Schultz
Topics: Where -- San Jose, Where -- Ames Research Center ARC
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/cheesy_poofs.html
Bomber wing model construction details. Wing No.4, clamps off.
View of the OS2U-2 with varicam tail rear view.
General views of FR-1 airplane mounted in the 40x80' W.T. 3/4 front view.
Photographer: N/A Pioneer F (Pioneer-10) spacecraft delivered to NASA at Cape Kennedy from TRW
Topic: What -- Pioneer 10
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