Von Kárman Visitor Center
Von Kárman Visitor Center is a tourism office in Los Angeles, Southern California, California. Von Kárman Visitor Center is situated nearby to JPL Building 186 (Theodore von Kármán Museum and Auditorium), as well as near the tourism office JPL Building 249 (Visitor’s Center).Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Space Flight Operations Facility and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Space Flight Operations Facility
Historic building
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Space Flight Operations Facility is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Space Flight Operations Facility is situated 710 feet north of Von Kárman Visitor Center.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Research institute
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. Jet Propulsion Laboratory is situated 1,200 feet northeast of Von Kárman Visitor Center.
Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator
Historic building
The Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator is a chamber for testing spacecraft in space-like conditions, including extreme cold, high radiation, and near-vacuum pressure. Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator is situated 1,400 feet north of Von Kárman Visitor Center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Cañada Flintridge and Altadena.
La Cañada Flintridge
Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0.
La Cañada Flintridge is a city of about 20,000 people at the extreme northwest end of the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California.
Altadena
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Altadena is an unincorporated area, and census-designated place in the San Gabriel Valley and the Verdugos regions of Los Angeles County, California. Directly north of Pasadena, it is located approximately 14 miles from Downtown Los Angeles. Altadena is situated 2½ miles east of Von Kárman Visitor Center.
Altacanyada
Hamlet
La Cañada Flintridge, commonly known as just La Cañada, is a city in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Altacanyada is situated 2½ miles northwest of Von Kárman Visitor Center.
Von Kárman Visitor Center
- Type: Tourism office
- Categories: information and tourism
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.19903° or 34° 11′ 57″ northLongitude
-118.17517° or 118° 10′ 31″ westOpen location code
85635RXF+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 11528607008OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=information
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include JPL Building 186 (Theodore von Kármán Museum and Auditorium) and JPL Building 249 (Visitor’s Center).
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