Pickering Auditorium

Pickering Auditorium is a building in Los Angeles, Southern California, California. Pickering Auditorium is situated nearby to the research institute Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as near the historic building Space Flight Operations Facility.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Space Flight Operations Facility.

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, United States. Founded in 1936 by California Institute of Technology researchers, the laboratory is now owned and sponsored by NASA and administered and managed by Caltech. Jet Propulsion Laboratory is situated 770 feet northwest of Pickering Auditorium.

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 1,100 feet west of Pickering Auditorium.

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 1,300 feet northwest of Pickering Auditorium.

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 Pickering Auditorium.

Normandie Heights

Neighborhood

Normandie Heights is a neighborhood in Pasadena, California. It is bordered by Woodbury Road to the north, Washington Boulevard to the south, Los Robles Avenue to the west, and Lake Avenue to the east. Normandie Heights is situated 2½ miles southeast of Pickering Auditorium.

Pickering Auditorium

Type: Building
Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

34.19986° or 34° 11′ 60″ north

Longitude

-118.17108° or 118° 10′ 16″ west

Open location code

85635RXH+WH

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3909856367

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

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