Ames Research Center

NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) is a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, which covers 43 acres at the borders of the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale in California. This research center is most commonly called NASA Ames

ARC was founded on December 20, 1939 as the second laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and moved to NASA in 1958. Then known as Ames Aeronautical Laboratory it was named after Joseph Sweetman Ames a longtime (1919-1939) NACA chairman.

The Center houses the world's largest wind tunnel, part of the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC) which are 40x80 and 80x120 foot long sharing a common drive system. It was decommissioned by NASA in 2003 and operated since then by USAF' Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) which is headquartered at Arnold AFB, TN.

Moffett Field includes an academic research park intended to foster collaborations with universities such as the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) (University of California, Santa Cruz), SJSU Metropolitan Technology Center (San Jose State University) and The Space Technology Center (STC) (also San Jose State University)