Langley Research Center

NASA Langley Research Center
	; Aerial view of the Langley Research Center in 2011
Agency overview
Formed	1917
Preceding agency	Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (NACA);
Jurisdiction	U.S. Federal Government
Headquarters	Hampton, Virginia, U.S.
Employees	1,821 (2017)
Agency executives	Clayton P. Turner, Director; David Young, Deputy Director; Lisa Ziehmann, Associate Director;
Parent agency	NASA
Website	www.nasa.gov/langley
Map
	Map of NASA Langley Research Center
Footnotes

The Langley Research Center (LaRC or NASA Langley), located in Hampton, Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay front of Langley Air Force Base, is the oldest of NASA's field centers. LaRC has focused primarily on aeronautical research but has also tested space hardware such as the Apollo Lunar Module. In addition, many of the earliest high-profile space missions were planned and designed on-site. Langley was also considered a potential site for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center prior to the eventual selection of Houston, Texas.

Established in 1917 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the research center devotes two-thirds of its programs to aeronautics and the rest to space. LaRC researchers use more than 40 wind tunnels to study and improve aircraft and spacecraft safety, performance, and efficiency. Between 1958 and 1963, when NASA (the successor agency to NACA) started Project Mercury, LaRC served as the main office of the Space Task Group.

In September 2019, after previously serving as associate director and deputy director, Clayton P. Turner was appointed director of NASA Langley.

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