MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. News media are invited Aug. 20, 2010 to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Vertical Motion Simulator, or ( VMS), a facility NASA uses to mimic a variety of aircraft and ...
Four passengers participate in a simulation of an air taxi ride at NASA’s Vertical Motion Simulator, or VMS. Located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, the VMS allows NASA ...
They call it the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS), and by all accounts, it is the world's largest flight simulator. Installed in a ten-story tower at the NASA Ames Simulation Lab in Silicon Valley, the ...
NASA's Advanced Air Mobility vision involves the skies above the U.S. filled with new types of aircraft, including air taxis. But making that vision a reality involves ensuring that people will ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—From a viewing spot in a high bay room at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, I peer through a glass window at a cab that simulates the cockpit of a commercial aircraft.