Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena, CA
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N 34° 11.885 W 118° 10.512
11S E 391722 N 3784744
JPL has an annual open house where you can tour the facilities where spacecrafts are made and how they are control millions of miles away from Earth.
Waymark Code: WMVTR0
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/25/2017
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Taken from Wikipedia, "The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in La Cañada Flintridge, California and Pasadena, California, United States.
The JPL is managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for NASA. The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network.
Among the laboratory's major active projects are the Mars Science Laboratory mission (which includes the Curiosity rover), the Cassini–Huygens mission orbiting Saturn, the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dawn mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta, the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, the NuSTAR X-ray telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. They are also responsible for managing the JPL Small-Body Database, and provides physical data and lists of publications for all known small Solar System bodies.
The JPL's Space Flight Operations Facility and Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator are designated National Historic Landmarks."
Free Sample Offered: yes
Gift Shop Available: yes
Restaurant/Cafe Available: yes
Length of Tour: Over an hour
Type of product manufactured: Vehicles
Company Name: NASA
Tour Hours: From: 8:00 AM To: 4:00 PM
Admission Price: 0.00 (listed in local currency)
Tour's Web Site: [Web Link]
Street Address: 4800 Oak Grove Dr Pasadena, CA 91109
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