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Astronaut Suni Williams floats on the International Space Station, posing next to the BioNutrients experiment packs.

Ames Research Center

NASA’s Ames Research Center, one of ten NASA field centers, is located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. Since 1939, Ames has led NASA in conducting world-class research and development in aeronautics, exploration technology and science aligned with the center’s core capabilities.

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Location

Moffett Field, California

Founded

December 20, 1939

People

3,200+

Director

Eugene Tu

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Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO)

NASA's ACERO project is developing an airspace management system pilots can use to safely send aircraft – including drones and remotely piloted helicopters – into wildland fires during low visibility conditions. This will greatly expand the window of time crews have to aerially suppress and monitor wildland fires.

Looking up, the underside of a small white aircraft is shown flying against a blue sky.

As part of NASA’s Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations flight tests in November 2024, Overwatch Aero flies a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft in Watsonville, California.

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Focus Areas and Capabilities

The heat shield used to transport the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover through the atmosphere of the Red Planet upon arrival is seen undergoing testing at the Arc Jet facilities at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.

Entry Systems

Safely delivering spacecraft to Earth and other celestial bodies.

Two people stand in front of a tall row of computing stacks

Advanced Computing and IT Systems

Enabling NASA's advanced modeling and simulation.

Tiny figures stand inside the football field-size air intake of the 80- by 120-foot wind tunnel at the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2021. This photo was taken during a visit by the Blue Angels, the flight demonstration squadron of the U.S. Navy.

Aerosciences

Testing on the ground before you take to the sky.

Air Traffic Management

Transforming the way we fly.

Advanced biological engineering

Biology and Astrobiology

Understanding life on Earth – and in space

Illustration of the BioSentinel spacecraft, flying past the Moon with the CubeSat's solar arrays fully deployed, facing the Sun.

Cost-effective space missions

Enabling high value science to low Earth orbit and the Moon

image of an astronaut posting with flying robots

Intelligent/Adaptive systems

Complementing humans in space

A world map with different regions colored according to predicted future temperature

Space and Earth Science

Understanding our planet, our solar system and everything beyond

Ames Leadership

Portrait of Dr. Eugene L. Tu, director of NASA's Ames Research Center (2017)

Dr. Eugene Tu

Center Director

Portrait of David Korsmeyer

Dr. David Korsmeyer

Deputy Center Director

Portrait of Amir H. Deylami, Associate Center Director of NASA's Ames Research Center

Amir H. Deylami

Associate Center Director

Ames History

Since 1939, Ames contributions have fundamentally shaped fields of study related to aeronautics and space.

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A model representing half an airplane featuring a truss-braced wing, installed for testing in a wind tunnel

Illustration of the BioSentinel spacecraft with its four solar arrays deployed, facing the Sun. The Milky Way is seen in the background.

NASA researchers test a mobile air traffic kit for remotely operated Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in DeSoto National Forest in Mississippi. The ...

Two team members load a spacecraft into a CubeSat dispenser in a cleanroom. Two other team members observe.

The Super Guppy lands on the runway at Moffett Field at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. A person stands in front of the ...

Computer screens at the Southwest Airlines Network Operations Control Center in Dallas, Texas, display NASA's Digital Information Platform Collabor...

A person with blue gloves, a lab suit, and mask is holding a device. The device has two cylinders connected together.

Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in this picture from Ap...

Smith and his team employed time-saving computer modeling, as well as a laser 3D printing process that fused metals together, layer-by-layer, to cr...

Back-side view of the X-59 tail with a red cover over the engine nozzle. The red plug or covering protects the engine by creating a barrier so that...

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