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2004 Ames Implementation Plan "Ames Research Center boasts a proud history of innovation and discovery that spans more than 60 years. Today, at the beginning of the 21st Century, we face new challenges and new opportunities. Our responses will define us as an institution. We will measure ourselves by our creativity, innovation, and dedication to The NASA Vision. We will succeed through our unique strengths and capabilities. 
The NASA vision that inspires us �To improve life here� blossoms at Ames. Our research projects accelerate the development of tools and procedures to improve aviation safety, security, and air traffic management for today and explore advanced concepts for transforming the national airspace system of tomorrow. In addition, our information technologists provide the high-end computational capability to model the complexity of global climate change�a major impact on our everyday lives. The NASA Vision asks us �To extend life to there.� Here, too, Ames advances the horizon. Our life sciences research enables an understanding of the effects of the space environment on living systems, while human-centered computing provides avenues for working in a robotic-assisted universe. Such studies pave the way to prolonged space missions. Perhaps most audaciously, the NASA Vision challenges us �To find life beyond.� Here too, Ames is in the vanguard. Seeking answers to some of life�s most fundamental questions, the Astrobiology scientists and NASA Astrobiology Institute centered at Ames ask: How does life begin and evolve? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe? What is the future of life on Earth and beyond? Ames created the interdisciplinary field of Astrobiology less than a decade ago and today leads more than 700 scientists across the Agency and around the world in pursuing investigations focused on these fundamental questions. Through biotechnology, information technology, and nanotechnology, researchers are developing both the basic knowledge and the applications to create new sensors and capabilities to allow autonomous spacecraft, and ultimately humans, to seek out life wherever it might reside. Finally, the new education mission challenges us to inspire a new generation of scientists, engineers and explorers in ever more creative and effective ways. Once again, Ames rises to the task with a daring new vision for the 21st Century: The NASA Research Park will open the Center�s gates to academia and industry as never before with a college- like campus and a commitment to partnership in the heart of Silicon Valley. Ames and its partners will soon begin developing 213 acres on Moffett Field into a world-class laboratory and educational facility. Here research scientists and students will conduct collaborative research and development in today�s most promising and adventurous fields: Astrobiology, biotechnology, information technology, and nanotechnology. This exciting new chapter in the history of Ames Research Center promises to get even better. I encourage you to read about it in these pages. " G. Scott Hubbard |
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NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, California 94035 Curator - Web Services Group NASA Official - Ann Sullivan Last Update - October 14, 2004 |
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