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IBM 1401 Data Processing System at NASA Ames Research Center.
NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley made key contributions to the SpaceX Demo-2 mission to...
Equipment: Data Processing and Data Reduction at the NASA Ames Research Center, EMC. IBM 7090 Data Processing System.
It all started with a mission to explore flight. From our establishment in 1939 as the second U.S. national...
NASA’s innovative modular approach to supercomputing expands the power of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility...
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a...
Provided as a media resource, this reel includes soundbites from the following: * Terry Fong, chief roboticist,...
The Peregrine Hybrid Rocket Engine, profile view, prior to the test at the Outdoor Aerodynamic Research Facility...
This footage from 1969 shows researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center examining samples of Moon rocks and soil...
(Oct. 27 1976) Controllable Twist Rotor, 40x80 Foot Wind Tunnel at Ames Research Center, model With John Bolt.
Provided as a media resource, this reel includes the following without narration: * Astrobee team building hardware...
3/4 front view of XV-4A Hummingbird VTOL Research Vehicle in Ames 40x80 wind tunnel with Tom Wills in Photo.
Caye Johnson, a former biologist from NASA's Ames Research Center, narrates footage from 1969 of researchers...
Provided as a media resource, this reel includes the following without narration: * SOFIA aircraft operations,...
Vice President Mike Pence, along with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, visited NASA's Ames Research Center in...
Ashley Karp, NASA JPL (Left) and Hunjoo Kim, NASA JPL (Right) attaching heat sensors the Peregrine Hybrid Rocket...
From Left to Right: 1. Hunjoo Kim (NASA JPL) 2. Kyle Botteon (NASA JPL) 3. Ashley Karp (NASA JPL) 4. Brian Schratz...
Hunjoo Kim, NASA JPL (Left) and Ashley Karp, NASA JPL (Right) attaching heat sensors the Peregrine Hybrid Rocket...
Astrobee is a free-flying robot system for the International Space Station. Designed and built at NASA’s Ames...
NASA has developed a flexible way to test new designs for aircraft that use multiple rotors to fly. The Multirotor...
Taking a break from his duties at Ames Research Center Jacob Cohen, Ames Chief Scientist grabs his own view of the...
This unnarrated animation depicts NASA’s first coordinated maneuver between two CubeSats in low-Earth orbit as part...
Test No. 175 Kaman K-16 being lowered into the 40x80 foot wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center, viewed from...
Test No. 175 Kaman K-16 in 40x80 Foot Wind Tunnel at Ames Research Center. Kaman K-16B was an experimental tilt wing...