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Members of the cast and crew of \u201cThe Wiz\u201d pose inside the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex 40 by 80 foot wind tunnel at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n
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Members of the cast and crew of Broadway production \u201cThe Wiz,\u201d currently on tour at San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Theatre, visited NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley on Jan. 29 to learn more about the center\u2019s work in air and space.<\/p>\n
The group met with center leadership and members of Ames employee advisory groups and toured the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS), the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC),\u00a0and observed progress on the Automated Reconfigurable Mission Adaptive Digital Assembly Systems (ARMADAS) robots, which use pre-fabricated modular blocks to build structures autonomously,\u00a0before following the yellow brick road back \u201chome\u201d to Oz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n