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VAMS
An integral element of the NASA Airspace Systems Program is the Virtual Airspace Modeling and Simulation (VAMS) Project, a research and development effort committed to building the foundations required to define and assess the next-generation air transportation system.
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CRYSTAL-FACE
CRYSTAL-FACE is a scientific mission by Veronika Soukhovitskaya to make a more accurate computer model of Earth's climate. Researchers are using six aircraft equipped with state-of-the-art instruments to measure characteristics of clouds and their influence on temperatures on Earth.
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Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET)
FACET is a simulation tool for exploring advanced air traffic management concepts.
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NASA Names Supercomputer After Columbia Astronaut
NASA will dedicate a new supercomputer this week to honor the memory of astronaut Kalpana "KC" Chawla, one of the seven crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, lost Feb. 1, 2003.
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Nanotechnology
Steady advances in miniaturization are leading technologists beyond the scale where Newton's laws govern the world and into the realm of Nanotechnology.
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Advanced Air Transportation Technologies (AATT) Project
An efficient and effective air traffic management system is vital to the U.S. transportation infrastructure. Since 1978, when the airline industry was deregulated, the inflation adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) has increased by 62 percent.
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Wind Tunnels
ARC Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel The Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (UPWT) was completed in 1956 at a cost of $27 million under the Unitary Plan Act of 1949. Since its completion, the UPWT facility has been the most heavily used NASA wind tunnel.
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NASA ER-2 EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTERS
A NASA ER-2 based at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,Calif., recently collected digital images during the southern California fires as demonstration of its emergency response capability to natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes and fires.
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Abnormal Situations in Aviation
An International Symposium on Emergency and Abnormal Situations in Aviation was held June 10th and 11th, 2003, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif.
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Aviation Data Integration System (ADIS)
Many airlines routinely review flight data and seek voluntary safety reports to identify anomalous events and ways to improve flight safety. These events may pinpoint potential problems in flight operations that could grow to cause an accident.
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BRAHMS - TUNE UP YOUR WORKPLACE
Brahms is a multi-agent modeling and simulation environment that improves our understanding of interaction between people and systems.
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NASA Unveils Its Newest, Most Powerful Supercomputer
NASA unveils new cutting edge technology.
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MAPGEN
MAPGEN (Mixed Initiative Activity Planning Generator) is a ground-based decision support system for mission operations and science teams that begins to give content to the notion of autonomous planetary exploration.
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Kepler
Kepler is a special purpose space mission in the NASA Headquarters Discovery Program for detecting terrestrial planets, that is, rocky and Earth-size around other stars.
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Astrobiology
NASA Ames Research Center is a leader in the development and execution of NASA's Astrobiology multidisciplinary effort.
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Cassini-Huygens
The Cassini orbiter will orbit Saturn and its moons for four years, and the Huygens probe that will dive into the murky atmosphere of Titan and land on its surface.
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Collaborative Computing
When science and engineering teams start navigating two rovers across the rocky martian terrain in January, the daily science planning process will be intense with more than 100 people collaborating to work each rover.
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The Computer Can Check It
NASA Ames is developing a software verification and validation technique to find flaws automatically, faster and more precisely than before.
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Evolvable Systems
Computer scientists at NASA are building software programs that design hardware the way 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin might have suggested, by natural selection.
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K-9 Rover
The goal of the K9 project is to integrate and demonstrate new robotic technologies that will enable NASA to meet the science goals of future Mars missions.