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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...
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a...
Vice President Mike Pence, along with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, visited NASA's Ames Research Center in...
Provided as a media resource, this reel includes soundbites from the following: * Terry Fong, chief roboticist,...
(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...
NASA’s innovative modular approach to supercomputing expands the power of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility...
Caye Johnson, a former biologist from NASA's Ames Research Center, narrates footage from 1969 of researchers...
NASA has developed a flexible way to test new designs for aircraft that use multiple rotors to fly. The Multirotor...
Provided as a media resource, this reel includes the following without narration: * SOFIA aircraft operations,...
Astrobee is a free-flying robot system for the International Space Station. Designed and built at NASA’s Ames...
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...
This video is a simulation of the climate on Mars spanning one year, from spring through winter in the northern...
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...
Test No. 175 Kaman K-16 in 40x80 Foot Wind Tunnel at Ames Research Center. Pictured with two Kaman employees. 3/4...
Taking a break from his duties at the Ames Vertical Gun Range to look up at the eclipse over Ames Research Center in...
Researchers discovered what is thought to be the first kind of molecule to form after the Big Bang. While theory...
NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley made key contributions both to the Mars 2020 Perseverance...
NASA’s flying telescope SOFIA captured a crisp infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Spanning more...