Visit the Ames Exploration Center in Mountain View, California, U.S.A.

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To do at the Ames Exploration Center

An authentic Moon rock and a Gemini capsule

The Ames Exploration Center exposes a real piece of lunar rock brought back to Earth by the Apollo 15 mission in 1971. You can also see an authentic Gemini capsule.

Models with incredible details

Look at beautiful models like the SOFIA plane that loads a telescope, and also look inside a space station mockup.

Screenings on the giant theater screen

Watch some of NASA’s most exciting missions on the planets of the solar system.

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Ames Exploration Center

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Ames Exploration Center 37.407200, -122.067000 Ames Research Center

Moffett Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043, U.S.A.

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Picture by Oleg Alexandrov [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

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