High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NASA Research Park is a research park run by NASA which aims to develop a world-class, shared-use research and development campus in association with government entities, academia, industry and non-profit organisations. It is situated in near San Jose, California. It began in 1939 as Ames Research Center and was instrumental in the development and research of flight and space travel. In the 1990s it was developed into the research park it is today.