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The second Spaceloft reusable sounding rocket launched by UP Aerospace roars aloft from its launch tower at Spaceport America in New Mexico in April 2007. SpaceLoft 2 was the first commercial rocket to reach space from Spaceport America. (Up Aerospace)

Media Invited to View UP Aerospace Launch for NASA

The first suborbital rocket launch from Spaceport America funded by NASA's Flight Opportunities Program to carry multiple space technology payloads ...

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Jim Arnold speaking at NASA Ames in 2011.

NASA Retired Scientist Wins Alvin Seiff Memorial Award

A NASA scientist, whose research and leadership helped revolutionize planetary probe and sample return technology, today received an award for his ...

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Depicting the heatshield separation as the Galileo Entry Probe enters the atmosphere of Jupiter.

Ames Co-Hosts Planetary Probe Workshop

One of humankind’s most challenging ventures, sending vehicles to other worlds, will draw 150 experts for the International Planetary Probe Workshop.

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This image from JAXA’s Hinode mission shows the lower regions of the sun’s atmosphere, the interface region, which a new mission called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, will study in exquisite detail.

NASA Ames Hosts New Solar Mission Launch Events

Reporters are invited to interview team members at NASA Ames in addition to viewing live launch coverage and televised news broadcasts.

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collage showing commercial spacecraft and weightless man floating inside airplane

NASA Selects Suborbital Space Technology Payloads

NASA has selected 21 more space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft.

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Artist's concept of the IRIS satellite in orbit.

IRIS Launch Broadcast Viewing at NASA Ames [sold out]

On Wednesday, June 26, NASA’s newest mission, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...

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Kepler Mission Manager Update: 503 New Candidates

The Kepler spacecraft remains in its Point Rest State (PRS) and is operating well in this mode.

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montage of NASA's DC-8 and ER-2 in flight

SEAC⁴RS Mission Targets U.S. Pollution and ...

Airborne and satellite mission over southern U.S. this summer to study how pollution and natural emissions affect atmospheric composition and climate.

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Areas of Ames Ingenuity

Entry systems: Safely delivering spacecraft to Earth & other celestial bodies
Supercomputing: Enabling NASA's advanced modeling and simulation
NextGen air transportation: Transforming the way we fly
Airborne science: Examining our own world & beyond from the sky
Low-cost missions: Enabling high value science to low Earth orbit & the moon
Biology & astrobiology: Understanding life on Earth -- and in space
Exoplanets: Finding worlds beyond our own
Autonomy & robotics: Complementing humans in space
Lunar science: Rediscovering our moon
Human factors: Advancing human-technology interaction for NASA missions
Wind tunnels: Testing on the ground before you take to the sky

NASA in Silicon Valley

Ames Research Center, one of 10 NASA field centers, is located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. For more than 70 years, Ames has been a leader in conducting world-class research and development. Ames provides NASA with advancements in entry, descent and landing technologies, information technology, next-generation aviation improvements, astrobiology, airborne sciences and small satellite programs.