A message from the NASA Ames Center Director Eugene Tu Ames family, It’s with a heavy heart and extreme sadness that I inform you of the passing of former Ames Center Director Dr. Henry (Harry) McDonald. Harry was the eighth center director, serving from 1996 to 2002. Harry arrived at Ames with the charge from Administrator Daniel Goldin to take our center into the 21st century and leverage the fact […]

IRIS Televised Launch Viewing at NASA’s Ames Research Center, NASA Ames “On Wednesday, June 26, NASA’s newest mission, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. IRIS will take flight using a Pegasus XL rocket, carried aloft by an Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft from Vandenberg. This exciting launch will broadcast live at the NASA Ames Visitor Center at NASA’s Ames Research Center, […]