#OnThisDay in 1939, the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (@NASAAmes) was established as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). In the 1940s, the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory was leading wind tunnel research in high-speed aeronautics #NASAAmesWind #NASA @NASA
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Ames (@NASAAmes) was the second laboratory created by NACA and was named in honor of Joseph Sweetman Ames, a leading physicist and one of the founding members of NACA. #NASAAmesWind #AvGeek #NASA @NASA
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RT @WIRED: NASA wants to make a supersonic jet with no boom https://t.co/WrY53WoXHt https://t.co/jhW4WXyuUC
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RT @WIRED: Oh, @NASA's gonna snap that perfect cosmos pic, all right. Even if it has to cut a giant hole in a 747 to get it https://t.co/OK…
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RT @airandspace: Mary W. Jackson was the first Black female engineer at NASA. Jackson started in the West Area Computing Unit at the Langle…
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RT @museumofflight: On this anniversary of the first Moon landing, check out this NASA restored footage: https://t.co/CtraBAGS9q
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See our photography essay on the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (@NASAAmes), “Pushing the Envelope: NASA’s Ames Research Center Wind Tunnels” on display, pre-security, in the Aviation Museum and Library. https://t.co/iQzz1utRF5 #NASAAmesWind #AvGeek #NASA @NASA
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The Astronauts formed in Boulder, CO, in the late 1950s. Originally named The Stormtroopers, they changed their name to reflect the NASA Mercury space program and its astronaut crew, which included Colorado native Scott Carpenter. #InstrumentalSurf
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A group of men collect stones from a quarry 2004
Chiweshe, Zimbabwe
Courtesy of Masvingo Sculptures
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The Great Dyke, Zimbabwe
Courtesy of @NASA
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