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Ames Research Center

LC control no.n 79138699
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Corporate name headingAmes Research Center
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Variant(s)United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Ames Research Center
United States. Ames Research Center
NASA/Ames Research Center
N.A.S.A./Ames Research Center
Ames Aeronautical Laboratory
LocatedMoffett Field (Calif.)
Found inAmes Aeronautical Laboratory in action. [MP] 1949.
Deployable optical systems, c1983: t.p. (Nasa/Ames Research Center)
Portable life support systems, 1970: t.p. (NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California)
NASA WWW Ames Research Center p., viewed February 9, 2015: history p. (The Center was established in 1939 as the second laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and was named for the chair of the NACA, Joseph S. Ames. It was located at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California, now at the heart of Silicon Valley. The Laboratory was renamed the NASA Ames Research Center with the formation of NASA in 1958.)
NLM files, February 9, 2015 earlier name: Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (U.S.); no access point found in OCLC.
From engineering science to big science : the NACA and NASA Collier Trophy research project winners, 1998: p. 35 (new Ames Aeronautical Laboratory adjacent to the Navy's Moffett Field on the flat bay lands near Sunnyvale, California, 1940)