Ames Research Center

37,415 - 122.0625Koordinaten: 37 ° 24 ' 54 " N, 122 ° 3' 45 " W

The Ames Research Center (ARC ) is a NASA research center with approximately 3000 employees, half of NASA's relatives.

It is located at Moffett Field ( California ) at the borders of Mountain View and Sunnyvale cities and was founded on 20 December 1939 as a second laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ). Founding member of the predecessor of NASA was the American physicist and later president of Johns Hopkins University, Joseph S. Ames. In his honor, first received the research institution, the name Ames Aeronautical Laboratory. With the founding of the U.S. space agency in 1958, Ames was integrated into the NASA and is now one of the outreach centers ( Field Center ).

The main tasks of the ARC basic research in the field is one of aviation technology. Ames operated the largest wind tunnel in the world until it was decommissioned in 2003. There also is also the supercomputer " Pleiades ", which was in the TOP500 ranking listed in June 2011 as the seventh fastest computer in the world.

In addition, the Ames Research Center was responsible for the Pioneer space probes NASA.

The Ames Research Center operates with the AILS also an image archive, paintings, prints and photographs contains.

More research centers of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center are the, the Glenn Research Center and Langley Research Center.