1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,900 (Music) 2 00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:08,280 How did NASA Ames innovate in 2016? 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,940 Teams with uncrewed aerial vehicles tested 4 00:00:10,940 --> 00:00:16,490 a future air traffic management system. 5 00:00:16,490 --> 00:00:19,380 Shape shifting aircraft wings and control tower 6 00:00:19,380 --> 00:00:21,510 systems promise to make the airways 7 00:00:21,510 --> 00:00:24,770 more environmentally friendly. 8 00:00:24,770 --> 00:00:27,510 SOFIA, the world's largest airborne infrared 9 00:00:27,510 --> 00:00:29,830 telescope studied stars and the mysteries 10 00:00:29,830 --> 00:00:33,080 of the early universe. 11 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,080 NASA's Kepler mission identified 1,200 distant 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,700 foreign worlds and rebooted for the K2 mission 13 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:42,980 and more discoveries. 14 00:00:42,980 --> 00:00:45,210 Life science teams delivered 10 experiments 15 00:00:45,210 --> 00:00:48,840 to the space station. 16 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,020 They worked off the Earth, for the Earth 17 00:00:52,020 --> 00:00:55,040 performing the first ever DNA sequencing in orbit 18 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,220 with Wetlab-2. 19 00:00:58,220 --> 00:01:01,320 A cutting edge new modular supercomputing 20 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:06,360 facility expanded. 21 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,530 Advanced reentry testing of heat shields for the 22 00:01:09,530 --> 00:01:12,050 Orion spaceship made progress on our 23 00:01:12,050 --> 00:01:15,740 Journey to Mars. 24 00:01:15,740 --> 00:01:19,590 Visit www.nasa.gov for more about