NASA Centers and Facilities

NASA Centers & Facilities in the U.S.

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Ames Research Center According to NASA, the 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. https://www.nasa.gov/ames NASA's Ames Research Center NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

Armstrong Research Center According to Yvonne Gibbs, "NASA Armstrong is the agency’s lead center for atmospheric flight research, operations, and testing and continues to accelerate advances in science, technology, and exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality and stewardship of Earth." http://www.nasa.gov/armstrong Armstrong Flight Research Center NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

Jet Propulsion Lab The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a unique national research facility that carries out robotic space and Earth science missions. JPL helped open the Space Age by developing America's first Earth-orbiting science satellite, creating the first successful interplanetary spacecraft, and sending robotic missions to study all the planets in the solar system as well as asteroids, comets, and Earth's moon. In addition to its missions, JPL developed and manages NASA's Deep Space Network, a worldwide system of antennas that communicates with interplanetary spacecraft, according to NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/jpl NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

Michoud Assembly Facility To enable NASA’s human and robotic exploration missions, Marshall maintains a broad spectrum of design, development, and testing capabilities. Marshall also works together across scientific and engineering disciplines to design, develop, integrate, test and operate complex systems utilizing unique facilities, expertise and capabilities, according to NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/michoud Michoud Assembly Facility NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

NASA Safety Center The NASA Safety Center (NSC) reports to NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance and supports the Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) requirements of NASA’s portfolio of programs and projects. We focus on improving the development of the personnel, processes, and tools needed for the safe and successful achievement of NASA’s strategic goals, according to NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/offices/nsc/home/ The NASA Safety Center NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

NASA Engineering and Safety Center According to NASA, their Engineering and Safety Center's (NESC) mission is to perform value-added independent testing, analysis, and assessments of NASA's high-risk projects to ensure safety and mission success. The NESC engages proactively to help NASA avoid future problems. https://www.nasa.gov/offices/nesc/home/index.html NASA Engineering & Safety Center NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

Independent Verification and Validation Facility Located in the heart of West Virginia's emerging technology sector, NASA's IV&V Program was established in 1993 as part of an Agency-wide strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety and cost-effectiveness for mission-critical software, according to NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ivv/home/index.html NASA's IV&V Facility NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

Kennedy Space Center According to NASA, Kennedy is home to NASA's Launch Services Program. This program is responsible for launching satellites and robotic missions on journeys to learn more about our home planet and to unlock the secrets of the universe. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html Kennedy Space Center Home NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

Goddard Space Flight Center According to NASA, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, plays a pivotal role across all aspects of the agency’s missions, from development to de-orbit. Goddard is the operational home of the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. Goddard studies the tenuous atmosphere of Mars with MAVEN and the Red Planet’s surface with instruments aboard the Curiosity rover. Goddard surveys the moon with LRO and watches our sun with the Solar Dynamics Observatory. GPM, Landsat and a host of other satellites monitor Earth and our changing climate. http://www.nasa.gov/goddard NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

Plum Brook Station Plum Brook Station is a remote test facility for the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Located on 6,400 acres in the Lake Erie community of Sandusky, Plum Brook is home to four world-class test facilities, which perform complex and innovative ground tests for the international space community, according to NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/testfacilities/index.html Plum Brook Station NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

White Sands Test Facility NASA's White Sands Test Facility is a component of Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. A self-contained facility with medical, fire and hazardous rescue personnel, they test and evaluate potentially hazardous materials, space flight components, and rocket propulsion systems for NASA centers, other government agencies, and commercial industry, according to NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wstf/home/ White Sands Test Facility NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

Marshall Space Flight Center According to NASA, Marshall is home to development of the Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket ever designed to carry human explorers, their equipment and science payloads deeper into space than ever before, to the Moon and Mars. Marshall also manages the Michoud Assembly Facility, where the core stage of SLS is under construction with a unique set of leading-edge tools, including the largest spacecraft welding tool in the world, the 170-foot-tall, 78-foot-wide Vertical Assembly Center. http://www.nasa.gov/marshall Marshall Space Flight Center NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

Johnson Space Center According to NASA, their Johnson Space Center has served as a hub of human spaceflight activity for more than half a century. It is home to the nation’s astronaut corps, the International Space Station mission operations, the Orion Program, and a host of future space developments. http://www.nasa.gov/johnson Johnson Space Center Home NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

Stennis Space Center According to NASA, John C. Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi is one of 10 NASA field centers in the United States. Because of its important role in engine testing for more than five decades, Stennis is NASA's program manager for rocket propulsion testing with total responsibility for conducting and/or managing all NASA propulsion test programs. http://www.nasa.gov/stennis NASA's Stennis Space Center NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

NASA Headquarters NASA Headquarters, in Washington, provides overall guidance and direction to the agency, under the leadership of the Administrator. Ten field centers and a variety of installations around the country conduct the day-to-day work in laboratories, on air fields, in wind tunnels, and in control rooms. Together, this skilled, diverse group of scientists, engineers, managers, and support personnel share the Vision, Mission, and Values that are NASA, according to its website. http://www.nasa.gov/hq Welcome to NASA Headquarters NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA

Goddard Institute for Space Studies According to the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies' website, The GISS is a laboratory in the Earth Sciences Division (ESD) of National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The ESD is part of GSFC's Sciences and Exploration Directorate. Following approval by NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan in December 1960, the institute was established by Dr. Robert Jastrow in May 1961 (originally as the New York City office of GSFC's Theoretical Division) to do basic research in space sciences in support of GSFC programs. The institute's early study of the Earth and planetary atmospheres using data collected by satellites, space probes, and space probes eventually led to GISS becoming a leading center of atmospheric modeling and of climate change. https://www.giss.nasa.gov NASA GISS: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Research at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) emphasizes a broad study of global change. Nasa

Wallops Flight Facility NASA's Wallops Flight Facility provides agile, low-cost flight and launch range services to meet government and commercial sector needs for accessing flight regimes worldwide from the Earth’s surface to the moon and beyond. Wallops' flight assets ranging from research aircraft, unmanned aerial systems, and high-altitude balloons to suborbital and orbital rockets provide a full range of capability while operational launch range and airfield capabilities meet ongoing and emerging needs in the science, aerospace, defense, and commercial industry, according to NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/home Wallops Flight Facility NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos, and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. NASA