This Used To Be the Future
A look inside NASA’s Ames Research Center
Published in
5 min readDec 26, 2018
By Rachel B. Sussman
NASA Ames is filled with the exotic technologies of a future that didn’t quite come to pass. Ancient computers still operate equipment in the machine shop. A decommissioned nuclear missile sits in a parking lot, and the twin of the International Space Station sits out in the open air, under a tarp.
