{"id":12789,"date":"2024-12-20T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T22:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/nasas-ames-research-center-celebrates-85-years-of-innovation\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T18:10:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T22:10:59","slug":"nasas-ames-research-center-celebrates-85-years-of-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/nasas-ames-research-center-celebrates-85-years-of-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center Celebrates 85 Years of Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center Celebrates 85 Years of Innovation<\/h2>\n

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Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley pre-dates a lot of things. The center existed before NASA \u2013 the very space and aeronautics agency it\u2019s a critical part of today. And of all the marvelous advancements in science and technology that have fundamentally changed our lives over the last\u00a085 years since its founding<\/a>, one aspect has remained steadfast; an enduring commitment to what\u2019s known by some on-center simply as, \u201can atmosphere of freedom.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Years before breaking ground at the site that would one day become home to the world\u2019s preeminent\u00a0wind tunnels<\/a>,\u00a0supercomputers<\/a>,\u00a0simulators<\/a>, and brightest minds solving some of the world\u2019s toughest challenges,\u00a0Joseph Sweetman Ames<\/a>, the center\u2019s namesake, described a sentiment that would guide decades of innovation and research:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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My hope is that you have learned or are learning a love of freedom of thought and are convinced that life is worthwhile only in such an atmosphere<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u201cMy hope is that you have learned or are learning a love of freedom of thought and are convinced that life is worthwhile only in such an atmosphere,\u201d he said in an address to the graduates of Johns Hopkins University in June 1935.<\/p>\n

That spirit and the people it attracted and retained are a crucial part of how Ames, along with other\u00a0N.A.C.A. research centers<\/a>, ultimately made\u00a0technological breakthroughs<\/a>\u00a0that enabled humanity\u2019s first steps on the Moon, the\u00a0safe return of spacecraft<\/a>\u00a0through Earth\u2019s atmosphere, and many other discoveries that benefit our day-to-day lives.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the context of my work, an atmosphere of freedom means the freedom to pursue high-risk, high-reward, innovative ideas that may take time to fully develop and \u2014 most importantly \u2014 the opportunity to put them into practice for the benefit of all,\u201d said Edward Balaban, a researcher at Ames specializing in artificial intelligence, robotics, and advanced mission concepts.<\/p>\n

Balaban\u2019s career at Ames has involved a variety of projects at different stages of development \u2013 from early concept to flight-ready \u2013 including experimenting with different ways to create\u00a0super-sized space telescopes<\/a>\u00a0in space and using\u00a0artificial intelligence to help guide the path a rover<\/a>\u00a0might take to maximize off-world science results. Like many Ames researchers over the years, Balaban shared that his experience has involved deep collaborations across science and engineering disciplines with colleagues all over the center, as well as commercial and academic partners in Silicon Valley where Ames is nestled and beyond. This is a tradition that runs deep at Ames and has helped lead to\u00a0entirely new fields of study<\/a>\u00a0and seeded many companies and spinoffs.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the fields of aeronautics and space exploration the cost of entry can be quite high. For commercial enterprises and universities pursuing longer term ideas and putting them into practice often means partnering up with an organization such as NASA that has the scale and multi-disciplinary expertise to mature these ideas for real-world applications,\u201d added Balaban.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly, the topics of inquiry, the academic freedom, and the benefit to the public good are what has kept me at Ames,\u201d reflected Ross Beyer, a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute at Ames. \u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of commercial incentive to study other planets, for example, but maybe there will be soon. In the meantime, only with government funding and agencies like NASA can we develop missions to explore the unknown in order to make important fundamental science discoveries and broadly share them.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Beyer, his boundary-breaking moment came when he searched \u2013 and found \u2013 software engineers at Ames capable and passionate about open-source software to generate accurate, high-resolution, texture-mapped, 3D terrain models from stereo image pairs. He and other teams of NASA scientists have since applied that software to study and better understand everything from changes in\u00a0snow and ice characteristics on Earth<\/a>, as well as features like craters, mountains, and caves\u00a0on Mars<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0the Moon<\/a>. This capability is part of the\u00a0Artemis<\/a> campaign, through which NASA will establish a long-term presence at the Moon for scientific exploration with\u00a0commercial<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0international partners<\/a>. The mission is to learn how to live and work away from home, promote the peaceful use of space, and prepare for future human exploration of Mars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs NASA and private companies send missions to the Moon, they need to plan landing sites and understand the local environment, and our software is freely available for anyone to use,\u201d\u00a0Beyer said. \u201cYears ago,\u00a0our management could easily have said \u2018No, let\u2019s keep this software to ourselves; it gives us a competitive advantage.\u2019 They didn\u2019t, and I believe that\u00a0NASA writ large allows you to work on things and share those things and not hold them back.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

When looking forward to what the next 85 years might bring, researchers shared a belief that advancements in technology and opportunities to innovate are as expansive as space itself, but like all living things, they need a healthy atmosphere to thrive.\u00a0Balaban offered,\u00a0\u201cThis freedom to innovate is precious and cannot be taken for granted.\u00a0It can easily fall victim if left unprotected.\u00a0It is absolutely critical to retain it going forward, to ensure our nation\u2019s continuing vitality and the strength of the other freedoms we enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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