JPL Building 249 (Visitor’s Center)
JPL Building 249 (Visitor’s Center) is a tourism office in Los Angeles, Southern California, California. JPL Building 249 (Visitor’s Center) is situated nearby to the tourism office Von Kárman Visitor Center, as well as near JPL Building 186 (Theodore von Kármán Museum and Auditorium).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 500 feet northeast of JPL Building 249 (Visitor’s 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 1,100 feet northeast of JPL Building 249 (Visitor’s 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 1,100 feet north of JPL Building 249 (Visitor’s 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 JPL Building 249 (Visitor’s 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 JPL Building 249 (Visitor’s Center).
JPL Building 249 (Visitor’s Center)
- Type: Tourism office
- Categories: information, building, and tourism
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.19965° or 34° 11′ 59″ northLongitude
-118.1751° or 118° 10′ 30″ westElevation
1,165 feet (355 metres)Height
13 feet (3.9 metres)Open location code
85635RXF+VXOpenStreetMap ID
way 377238612OpenStreetMap feature
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