But NASA subsumed Ames, renaming it NASA Ames Research Center — and shifted its work on ... This test of Orion's heat shield using a combination of the IHF and the Laser Enhanced Arc Jet ...

It's déjà vu time as America celebrates the first astronauts to walk on the moon, 50 years ago this July. At the same time, a new generation of explorers is setting their sights deeper into space.

These include the Ames Administration building, the Aviation Systems Division's flight simulation and guidance laboratory, the Arc Jet Complex, and the NASA Ames Wind Tunnel Historic District.

In addition, guided tours of Ames’ Arc Jet Complex, hypervelocity free-flight facility and the ‘Space Shop’, which features rapid prototyping and 3D printing capabilities, were provided.

NASA Ames co-managed SOFIA ( Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), a 106-inch, 17-ton infrared telescope mounted inside a 747 jumbo jet, to view the skies more clearly.

News media are invited to Ames’ arc jet facility, Bldg. N234, on Thursday, May 18, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. PDT to see small heat shield samples that engineers tested in an apparatus that NASA ...

NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley houses a unique laboratory: the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF). The engineers at the ASF are responsible for building, maintaining, and operating ...

In a first-of-its-kind mission for NASA, dust and rocks collected from an asteroid streaked through the Earth’s atmosphere in a capsule and landed in a military range in Utah on ...