Ames Research Center

Japanese: エームズ研究センター - えーむずけんきゅうせんたー
Ames Research Center

… The main support for NASA's activities are facilities called centers, which are relatively independent. NACA opened the Langley Research Center in Virginia in 1920, followed by the Ames Research Center in California in 1939 and the Lewis Research Center in Ohio in 1940, but these research centers were taken over by NASA and are now focused on research. After NASA was founded, the Space Center was opened in Maryland in 1958, and the following year, in 1959, it was renamed the Goddard Space Flight Center after American rocket pioneer R. Goddard, and began to mainly carry out tasks such as unmanned satellite planning and spacecraft tracking. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the Ames Research Center is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… NASAの活動を支える主力は,比較的独立性の強いセンターと呼ばれる施設である。NACAは20年にバージニア州にラングレー研究センターを開設し,さらに39年カリフォルニア州にエームズ研究センター,40年オハイオ州にルイス研究センターを設立したが,これらの研究センターはNASAに引きつがれてもっぱら研究に重点をおいた活動をしている。NASAが発足してからは,58年メリーランド州にスペースセンターが発足,これは翌59年アメリカのロケットの先駆者R.ゴダードの名を冠してゴダード宇宙飛行センターと呼ばれるようになり,無人衛星計画と宇宙船追跡などの業務を主として実施することになった。…

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