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The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, isa major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California'sSilicon Valley. It was founded in 1939[1] as the second National AdvisoryCommittee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory. That agency was dissolved and itsassets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics andSpace Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA Ames is named in honor ofJoseph Sweetman Ames, a physicist and one of the founding members of NACA. Atlast estimate NASA Ames had over US $3 billion in capital equipment, 2,300research personnel and a US $860 million annual budget.