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The NASA Gift Shop in Silicon Valley (also called the NASA Ames Visitor Center) is a The NASA Gift Shop in Silicon Valley
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The NASA Gift Shop in Silicon Valley (also called the NASA Ames Visitor Center) is a visitor center
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at the entrance of NASA
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's Ames Research Center
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in Moffett Field, California. The center has the following exhibits:/ref> * The
Mercury-Redstone 1A
Mercury- Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was launched on December 19, 1960 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission objectives of this uncrewed suborbital flight were to qualify the spacecraft for space flight and qualify the system for an upcoming ...
capsule, launched in 1960 in a suborbital flight, which achieved an altitude of 130.7 miles.
* A high-resolution immersive theater with a 14-foot tall and 36-foot wide screen. The theater sometimes shows movies with footage from NASA's explorations of Mars and the planets, and about the contributions of the scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center.
* A model of the SOFIA
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aircraft, designed for infrared astronomy
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observations in the stratosphere.
* A large globe of the planet Mars
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The gift shop sells space and NASA-related memorabilia. The hours are Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM, and 10 AM to 5 PM on weekends. It is closed for Federal Holidays.
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Mercury-Redstone 1A
Mercury- Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was launched on December 19, 1960 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission objectives of this uncrewed suborbital flight were to qualify the spacecraft for space flight and qualify the system for an upcoming ...
capsule
File:NASA Ames Visitor Center Immersive Theater.JPG, Immersive theater
File:NASA Ames Visitor Center SOFIA telescope illustration.JPG, SOFIA
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aircraft model
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