Langley Aeronautical Laboratory
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.jpg) Aerial view of NASA Langley in 2011 |
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| Formed | 1917 |
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| Jurisdiction | US Federal Government |
| Headquarters | Hampton, Virginia, United States |
| Employees | 1,821 (2017) |
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| Parent agency | NASA |
| Website | www |
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Map of NASA Langley Research Center
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Langley Research Center (LaRC or NASA Langley) located in Hampton, Virginia, United States, is the oldest of NASA's field centers. It directly borders Langley Air Force Base and the Back River on the Chesapeake Bay. LaRC has focused primarily on aeronautical research, but has also tested space hardware at the facility, such as the Apollo Lunar Module. In addition, a number of the earliest high-profile space missions were planned and designed on-site.
Established in 1917 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the research center devotes two-thirds of its programs to aeronautics, and the rest to space. LaRC researchers use more than 40 wind tunnels to study and improve aircraft and spacecraft safety, performance, and efficiency. Between 1958 and 1963, when NASA (the successor agency to NACA) started Project Mercury, LaRC served as the main office of the Space Task Group.
In June 2015, after previously serving as Associate Director, then Deputy Director, Dr. David E. Bowles was appointed Director of NASA Langley.
After US-German relations had deteriorated from neutral to hostile around 1916, the prospect of U.S. war entry became possible. On February 15, 1917, the newly established Aviation Week warned that the U.S. military aviation capability was less than what was operating in the European war. President Woodrow Wilson sent Jerome Hunsaker to Europe to investigate, and Hunsaker's report prompted Wilson to command the creation of the nation’s first aeronautics laboratory, which became NASA Langley.
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