NASA's Silicon Valley

摘要

The NASA Ames Research Center is not equipped to build massive spacecraft or lead flagship missions to distant planets, but it can play a significant role in the space agency's future through innovations in information technology, space biology, small satellites and aeronautics.rnWith only 3,170 employees, Ames is one of NASA's smaller centers. That fact, which some might view as a disadvantage, is actually an advantage, according to Ames Director Simon "Pete" Worden.