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Ames Aerospace Encounter

Exploration Center
The NASA Exploration Center at Ames is located in the former Space Camp tent just outside the main gate to Moffett Field.

The Exploration Center currently features interactive displays and exhibits focused on Mars, the Mars Exploration Rover mission and Ames' scientific and engineering roles in Mars missions --both past and present.

To get to the Exploration Center, which is located just outside NASA Ames Research Center's main gate, take the Moffett Field exit off 101. Follow the signs, proceed to the main gate and take an immediate right turn into the parking lot.

The Exploration Center is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific Time, and on Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon to 4 p.m. Pacific Time. Admission is free. The Exploration Center is closed on Mondays and federal government holidays.

Aerospace Encounter
Created for fourth, fifth and sixth grade students, NASA's Ames Aerospace Encounter is a unique, interactive program designed to stir young people's imaginations and fuel their enthusiasm for science, mathematics, and technology. Located in a renovated supersonic wind tunnel at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, this classroom facility makes math and science curriculum come alive through cooperative discovery and out of this world FUN!