Directions to Moffett Field / NASA Ames Research Center From 101 North or South:
Take the Moffett Field North Gate exit off of 101. (Do not take Moffett Blvd.) Follow the road around until you get to a 4-way stop. Continue going straight. Tell the guards that you need to go to visitor badging.
From 85 North (from De Anza College):
Take the Moffett Blvd. exit. At the bottom of the exit ramp is a stop light. Turn Right at that stop light. Go straight through the next stop light. Go up and over 101. You will come to a 4-way stop. Continue going straight. Tell the guards that you need to go to visitor badging.
EVERYONE:
Once you get inside visitor badging, just show them your driver's license. (Show them your green card, VISA, or passport if you are not a US citizen.) They will give you a visitor's badge and a map on how to get to our building. The route I take to get to our office is as follows... Once you park and get your visitor badge, take a right immeditately out of the visitor badging parking lot. This will put you back at that same 4-way intersection you had been at before, but facing a different direction. (You are now facing the big wind tunnel that is off in the distance.) Go straight through the stop sign. (You are now on what is known as the Moffett Blvd. extension.) This entrance has a different guard booth than the one you were at before. Show the guard your visitor badge. Go straight for a while.. you will pass the big wind tunnel, gate 18, the visitor center, and the rockets. Keep going until you get to the next gate, gate 17. It is up on your right. Show the guard your visitor's badge. This is Wright Avenue. Take Wright Ave., go straight through the first stop sign. (This is the intersection of Wright Ave. and Hunsaker Road.) Continue going straight. Then take a right onto Allen Road. Go past the trailers and cross Parsons Ave. Park anywhere along this stretch of road. We are in Building 262 which is directly attached to Building 269. Go in through the front entrance and follow the signs to room 243. We're on the second floor in the cognition lab.
All of these directions will be more clear once you see a map of the base. You do NOT have to follow these directions to our building. If the directions that the people at the visitor badging office give you seem better or more clear, you may take those directions instead.