The SOC at NASA Ames Research Center ( ARC ) develops and operates the tools needed to process scientific data for use by the Kepler Science Office ( SO ).

NASA also operates light-gas guns with launch tube sizes ranging from to at Ames Research Center.

He brought renown to Franeker as professor, preacher, pastor and theological writer ; one student of the period influenced by Ames was Johannes Cocceius.

NASA Ames was a partner on the Mars Phoenix, a Mars Scout Program mission to send a high-latitude lander to Mars, deployed a robotic arm to dig trenches up to 1. 6 feet ( one half meter ) into the layers of water ice and analyzing the soil composition.

NASA Ames was one of the first locations in the world to conduct research on image processing of satellite-platform aerial photography.

Two Avrocars were built, one for wind-tunnel testing at NASA Ames and the other for flight testing.

There is one police station, three fire stations ( near Five Corners, Easton Green and North Easton ), three post offices ( near Easton Green, near Five Corners, and in North Easton ) and one library ( Ames Free Library, at the center of North Easton ).

Ames is one of the smallest villages in New York State.

Based on per capita income, one of the more reliable measures of affluence, Ames Lake ranks 10th of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked.

By taking stairs down to the basement of Building 66, one can head further east via a tunnel under Ames Street, which connects to Buildings E18, E19, E23, and E25, in the eastern section of the campus.

During the Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg that winter, Ames led his regiment in one of the last charges on December 13 against Marye's Heights.

At one point Ames himself took part in the hand-to-hand fighting.

In his new role, Ames offered one of the great orations on the death of President Washington.

Despite his limited number of years in public service, Fisher Ames ranks as one of the more influential figures of his era.

" Ames offered one of the first great speeches in American Congressional history when he spoke in favor of the Jay Treaty.

Hamilton's Federalists ( of which Ames was one ), although they too agreed with a Republic, advocated a stronger federal government with similar powers to the British example.

During this period at least one waverider was tested at the Woomera Rocket Range, mounted on the nose of an air-launched Blue Steel missile, and a number of airframes were tested in the wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center.

In one notable and lengthy land rights case, ' The Queen v. Ames ', Hayward acted on behalf of the town of Lyme Regis in securing the permanent right of way for its citizens, across the cliffs to Axminster.

* Birthplace of Billy Sunday The Ames ( Iowa ) Historical Society has compiled a biography of Sunday with pictures, including one of a Sunday plaque designating his birthplace.

Apparently the leak came from two sources, one of which might have been Aldrich Ames, an American Central Intelligence Agency officer, who had been selling secrets to the KGB.

Ames ' actions became one of the best-known examples of graft in American history.

In 2000, Ames moved into Chicago by acquiring all but one of the seven Goldblatt's department stores.

At the time of the liquidation, Ames ' most profitable store had been in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, which at one point had been a G. C. Murphy store far enough from the nearest Walmart and Kmart to be convenient for locals.

It has subsequently been one of the few former Ames ' that has since been occupied and subdivided, with Peebles and Busy Beaver occupying the former Ames ' site, with success.

In October 2004, SGI built the supercomputer Columbia, which broke the world record for computer speed, for the NASA Ames Research Center.

It is the second-oldest alternating current power plant in the world, the first being the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant near Ophir, Colorado, also in San Miguel County.

The 80 by 120 Foot Wind Tunnel at NASA Ames Research Center holds the distinction of being the largest wind tunnel test section in the world.

The magnitude and capacity of these systems makes the Ames Arc Jet Complex unique in the world.

In February 2006, after provoking world No. 1 Tiger Woods with the comment: " Anything can happen, especially where hitting the ball ," Ames was soundly defeated by Woods at the 2006 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship at La Costa, losing 9 and 8 ; the largest amount a player can possibly lose by in an eighteen-hole match play event is 10 and 8.

Playing against 48 of the top 50 golfers in the world ( including Woods ), Ames emerged victorious, with a record-equaling six stroke margin over World No. 3 Retief Goosen, becoming the second-oldest champion in championship history.

Processes developed at Ames Laboratory resulted in the production of the purest rare-earth metals in the world while at the same time reducing the price of the metals as much as 1, 000 percent.

Jonathan Ames was responsible for the Most Phallic Building contest which followed an article he wrote for Slate magazine where he claimed that the Williamsburg Bank Building in Brooklyn, New York, was the most phallic building in the world.

Throughout the novel, Ames details a reverential awe for the transcendental pathos in the small personal moments of happiness and peace with his wife and son and the town of Gilead, despite the loneliness and sorrow he feels for leaving the world with things undone and unsolved.

Ames also develops tools for a safer, more efficient national airspace and unique partnerships benefiting NASA ’ s mission.

Carrie ’ s dissatisfaction only increases when she meets Robert Ames, a bright young scholar from Indiana and her neighbor ’ s cousin, who introduces her to the idea that great art, rather than showy materialism, is worthy of admiration.

Most of the funding for STScI activities comes from contracts with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center but there are smaller activities funded by NASA's Ames Research Center, NASA ’ s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the European Space Agency ( ESA ).

Projects that have used software from the Autodesk AEC division include the NASA Ames building, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the Shanghai Tower, and New York ’ s Freedom Tower.

The Principal Investigator is William Borucki of NASA ’ s Ames Research Center.

However, " Nomad "' s true identity is Austin Ames ( Chad Michael Murray ), the popular, yet unhappy, quarterback of the school's football team, and Shelby's boyfriend ( Although Austin broke up with her, she chooses to ignore it ).

However, Mark Ames, who was covering the last war for The Nation, stated that Tskhinvali's main residential district, nicknamed Shanghai because of its population density ( it ’ s where most of the city ’ s high-rise apartment blocks are located ), and the old Jewish Quarter, were completely destroyed.

degree from Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, in 1966, his MA degree in conjunction with NASA ’ s Ames Research Center from California State University, San Jose, in 1968, and his Ph. D. degree in comparative psychology from Michigan State University in 1971.

Iowa State University ’ s original telescope and observatory, located northwest of Ames, was donated by the family of Milo Mather of Clarksville, Iowa, following his death in 1960.

Though Fick had never been to Ames, let alone graduated from Iowa State, he set up a trust through the ISU Foundation to help support Iowa State ’ s observatory.