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	+ Home Search Aviation Systems		Vice President Mike Pence Visits NASA Ames and Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) November 21, 2019 Vice President Mike Pence in the VMS Control Room. (From left to right: Colonel Karol “Bo” Bobko, SimLabs Branch Chief Steve Beard, Ames Aeronautics Director Huy Tran, Vice President Mike Pence, Ames Center Director Eugene Tu, Senior Simulation Engineer Steve Norris. Credits: NASA/Dominic Hart) Vice President Mike Pence visited NASA Ames Research Center on November 14, 2019. This visit included a tour of the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS), the world’s largest motion flight simulator. At the VMS, Vice President Pence and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine flew the Lunar Lander simulation and touched down on the simulated Moon’s surface. The VMS can be customized to simulate different aerospace vehicles, and can be used to develop, test, and certify future lunar lander systems in addition to training future Artemis astronauts for the critical landing task. Vice President Mike Pence (left) and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (right) in the Vertical Motion Simulator. (Credits: Photo by official White House photographer Myles Cullen.) The SimLabs branch also hosted the Vice President’s speech in the high bay of the VMS building, where he spoke about Ames Research Center's role in the Artemis program, including the VMS as part of that future. The speech can be found on NASA Video's Youtube Channel. Vice President Mike Pence addressing employees at the VMS High Bay (Credits: NASA/Dominic Hart) (POC: Steve Beard) TestBed Demonstration to Advanced Information Systems Technology Program at Goddard Space Flight Center November 21, 2019 The TestBed Sub-Project Manager and Technical Lead gave a presentation of the TestBed Sub-Project to Dr. Jacqueline Lemoigne-Stewart, head of the New Observing Systems (NOS) area within the Advanced Information Systems Technology Program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and her team. NOS is concerned with setting up multiple sensor platforms (space-based, airborne, ground-based) and facilitating their coordination for making Earth observations. Their interest in the TestBed platform was to determine if it may be helpful to test their multi-platform observing systems. (POC: Alan Lee and Kee Palopo) + Previous Highlights + Back to Top
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