![]() And Ames leaders devised new organizational forms to create the fields of astrobiology, robotics, microelectronic mechanical systems, and nanotechnology. Into the 1990s, Ames drew university and corporate researchers into space exploration by developing the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field. Ames engineers and planetary scientists managed a series of airborne science aircraft, planetary atmosphere probes, and robotic explorers like the Pioneers and Lunar Prospector. To link these computers together, Ames engineers pioneered inter-networking, using tools from the Silicon Valley firms growing around it. Some Ames aerodynamicists explored the complex airflows around rotorcraft and devised the first tiltrotor aircraft, while others modeled airflows using new supercomputers and created the field of computational fluid dynamics. ![]() When Ames became part of NASA, it continued fundamental research in new sciences and component technologies and became NASA’s lead center in basic life sciences research including radiation biology, adaptability to microgravity, and exobiology. ![]() In 1958, the lab was absorbed into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Established in December 1939 as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Ames Aeronautical Laboratory was named for Joseph Sweetman Ames, founding chairman of the NACA and the architect of aeronautical research in the United States.
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