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** STS-131 UPDATE -- JSC/KSC …
03/05/2010
Description ** STS-131 UPDATE -- JSC/KSC The STS-131 Crew and space shuttle Discovery continues their progress toward an April 5 launch to the International Space Station. Discovery has been rolled out to Launch Pad 39A, while the seven STS-131 astronauts participated in launch countdown dress rehearsal activities and other prelaunch training. ** AMES CREATES A WINNER -- ARC The World Wind Java computer program developed at the Ames Research Center has earned NASA's 2009 Software of the Year Award. World-Wind is an open-source platform used to display NASA and U.S. Geological Survey data on virtual 3-D globes of Earth and other planets. ** DEEP SPACE DOWN UNDER - JPL NASA is replacing an aging fleet of 230-foot-wide antennas used in the Deep Space Network with new ''beam wave guide'' antennas that enable the network to operate on several different frequency bands within the same antenna. The replacement antennas are approximately half the size of the originals. The NASA Deep Space Network - or DSN - is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe. The network also supports selected Earth-orbiting missions. ** 2009 QASAR AWARD -- GRC Christopher DellaCorte, of the Glenn Research Center's Tribology & Mechanical Components branch has received the 2009 Quality and Safety Achievement or Qasar Award for figuring out what caused severe degradation of a starboard solar array alpha rotary joint on the International Space Station. ** STEM EDUCATORS WORKSHOP -- LARC Teachers became students while participating in the second annual NASA Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics -- STEM -- Educators, Workshops held this year in Charlotte, N.C. The 40-session workshop provided elementary, middle and high school teachers with creative hands-on ways to incorporate NASA content into their classrooms. The workshops are specifically designed to give teachers tangible resources for immediate use in classrooms. ** FIRST ROBOTICS KICKOFF -- HQ The NASA supported ''For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology'' Robotics program began its 19th year with regional competitions like this one held in Washington, D.C. FIRST is a nationwide competition that teams young people with professionals to solve engineering design problems in a competitive way.
Date 03/05/2010
Eurocopter Super Puma
The Eurocopter Super Puma (o …
3/4/08
Description The Eurocopter Super Puma (originally built by AÔ___©rospatiale) is a helicopter marketed for civil and military aviation use. The type has proved immensely successful, chosen by 37 military forces around the world, and many civil operators. The Super Puma has proven especially well-suited to the North Sea oil industry, where it is used to ferry personnel and equipment to and from oil platforms in the Hibernian Oil Fields. In civilian configuration it can seat approximately 18 passengers and two crew. It is one of the few helicopters equipped with in-flight icing protection. NASA Glenn Research Center's Icing Branch has plans to create pilot training aimed at flight operations and pilot cue response to in-flight icing conditions. This training is still in development. Art by Eric Mindek (RS Information systems, Inc.)
Date 3/4/08
Snow at NASA Glenn
A plow clears Taylor Road in …
3/13/09
Description A plow clears Taylor Road in front of the airplane hangar at NASA's Glenn Research Center on February 4. Photographer: Marvin Smith (WYLE)
Date 3/13/09
Robot Demonstration
NASA Glenn Research Center's …
6/17/09
Description NASA Glenn Research Center's Mobile and Remote Sensing team demonstrates the Cratos robot for the local Department of Homeland Security office and local law enforcement bomb squads. Named for the Greek god of strength, Cratos originally was built to ascend and descend lunar craters, a capability necessary to search for water ice in permanently dark craters on the moon. The demonstration showed how a modified Cratos can retrieve soil samples for HAZMAT operations, put a smaller robot with a video camera on a bus to search for bombs and climb stairs to enter buildings. These remote control capabilities are designed to put distance between first responders and the natural and manmade disasters they may encounter. Photographer: Bridget Caswell (WYLE)
Date 6/17/09
Saturn I Booster Tests
A Saturn I booster model is …
7/14/09
Description A Saturn I booster model is set up for testing in NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center's 8'x6' Supersonic Wind Tunnel in 1960. The model had eight working rocket engines with 250 pounds of thrust each. The tests simulated actual flight conditions, providing valuable information to optimize vehicle stability and air pressure distribution. Image credit: NASA
Date 7/14/09
Groundwork for Testing Orion
The groundwork for testing t …
10/13/09
Description The groundwork for testing the new Orion Qualification Test Vehicle is in place at NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. In June, crews poured cement for the foundation of the Mechanical Vibration Facility (MVF) seismic mass, which is still under construction. The MVF is a part of the Space Power Facility, which also includes two large high-bays, an acoustics chamber and a vacuum chamber. The MVF will consist of an 18-foot diameter test table that will provide an area to test frequencies and vibration, and simulate the harsh mechanical vibration the Orion will experience during launch. (Information courtesy of Susan Motil, project manager for the Space Environmental Test Project) Image Credit: NASA Photographer: Quentin Schwinn (WYLE)
Date 10/13/09
Liquid Methane Tank is an im …
It's not a new home brewing …
10/14/09
Description It's not a new home brewing system, the world's largest holiday ornament or even an ambitious Death Star model. This spherical propellant tank is an important component of testing for the Altair lunar lander, an integral part of NASA's Constellation Program. This 4-foot diameter propellant tank lives at NASA's Glenn Research Center's Small Multipurpose Research Facility (SMiRF). It will be covered in 60 layers of high performance insulation, filled with liquid methane and extensively tested in a simulated lunar thermal environment within the SMiRF vacuum chamber. Determining how liquid methane would react to being stored on the moon could dramatically influence lunar travel, this method holds the potential to be less expensive, higher performing and safer than current rocket propellants. Photographer: Helmut Bamberger (Jacobs Technology, Inc)
Date 10/14/09
Rocket Welding
A worker grinds welds on an …
11/5/08
Description A worker grinds welds on an Ares I-X rocket segment being readied for shipment to Kennedy Space Center in September for a test launch next year. NASA's Glenn Research Center is designing and manufacturing several components of the test rocket, including the upper stage mass simulator and the service module and spacecraft adapter simulators. Photographer: Marvin Smith (Wyle)
Date 11/5/08
This featured image shows a …
Researchers fabricate sensor …
9/24/08
Description Researchers fabricate sensors and electronics for NASA missions in the Microsystems Fabrication Laboratory, a class 100 cleanroom located at NASA Glenn. These sensors and electronics can withstand extremely harsh conditions, such as those found in the hot sections of aircraft engines or on the surface of Venus. Electronics fabricated at NASA Glenn using silicon carbide have performed for thousands of hours at 930 degrees Fahrenheit. In the cleanroom, the air is filtered to remove dust particles. This prevents contamination of sensitive material. The temperature and humidity are precisely controlled to make fabrication processes highly repeatable. Photographer: Marvin Smith (WYLE)
Date 9/24/08
First Ares 1-X Rocket Flight …
The first major flight hardw …
11/3/08
Description The first major flight hardware of the Ares 1-X rocket arrived in Florida on Nov. 3 to begin processing for its launch in 2009. The upper stage simulator arrived at Port Canaveral by ship. The flight hardware was off-loaded from the barge and taken to high bay 4 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The upper stage simulator is made up of eleven individual components which were designed and manufactured by NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. They represent the size, outer shape and weight of the second stage of the Ares 1-X rocket and will be integrated in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy. The upper stage simulator will later be hoisted for stacking atop the Ares 1-X solid rocket booster segments.
Date 11/3/08
Creating the Future
Bob Peters, of Kendel Weldin …
12/8/08
Description Bob Peters, of Kendel Welding and Fabrication, welds part of an internal access support for the Ares I-X upper stage simulator at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. In 2009, NASA will launch Ares I-X, a test flight for the new Ares I rocket. Ares I will launch astronauts on missions to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond. Several components of the test rocket, including simulators of Ares I's upper stage, service module and spacecraft adapter are being designed and manufactured at the Glenn Research Center. Image Credit: NASA/Quentin Schwinn (RS Information Systems, Inc.)
Date 12/8/08
Ares V Scale Model
A worker completes installat …
5/7/09
Description A worker completes installation of a 25-foot-tall scale model of the Ares V rocket outside the Visitor Center at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland....
Date 5/7/09
Ares V Scale Model
A worker completes installat …
5/13/09
Description A worker completes installation of a 25-foot-tall scale model of the Ares V rocket outside the Visitor Center at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The Ares V cargo launch vehicle will be the "heavy lifter" of America's next-generation space fleet. and will serve as NASA's primary vessel for delivering large hardware to space. Glenn is leading the design and development of the rocket's payload shroud and several subsystems on the upper stage. Making its first flights in the next decade, Ares V is part of the Constellation Program to send human explorers back to the moon, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the solar system. Image Credit: NASA/Bridget Caswell (WYLE)
Date 5/13/09
NASA TV's This Week @NASA, M …
NASA Chief Technologist Bobb …
05/21/10
Description NASA Chief Technologist Bobby Braun helped kick off Spinoff Day on Capitol Hill. * A six-member team of aquanauts is testing exploration concepts off Florida's east coast in the difficult and often dangerous work environment of the ocean. * NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, is the new robotic record-holder for longevity on the Red Planet.* Recent studies sponsored by NASA suggest that Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil may play a role in mitigating bone breakdown. * Astronaut Jeff Williams, Expedition 22 Commander of the International Space Station gave a special presentation at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington about his recent six month mission aboard the complex. * The Jet Propulsion Laboratory held its annual two-day open house for adults and kids alike. * Employees of the Glenn Research Center were visited by members of two space shuttle crews. * More than 200 cyclists took part in the Ames Research Center's second annual Tour de Ames Bicycle Race and Fun Ride.
Date 05/21/10
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The three crew members of Ex …
06/04/10
Description The three crew members of Expedition 23 made a safe return to Earth after their Soyuz flight from the International Space Station.* The Glenn Research Center hosted Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown and other VIPs at several gatherings to underscore the center's contributions to the state and nation.* As this year's hurricane season gets underway, the Goddard Space Flight Center has unveiled, for the media, NASA's new climate simulation center.* Space is the focus of this year's World Science Festival in New York. * Four student teams representing high schools in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Utah, and North Carolina were at the Glenn Research Center to compete in NASA's Balloonsat High Altitude Flight Days.* Officials representing Palmdale, the Dryden Flight Research Center and the AERO Institute participated in a rededication ceremony to mark the reopening of Dryden's Educator Resource and Visitor Center.
Date 06/04/10
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Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurch …
06/18/10
Description Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Shannon Walker got a warm welcome from the resident Expedition 24 crew after arriving at the International Space Station. * The Glenn Research Center held a 'Mail Room Mayday.'The drill was a test of cutting- edge robotic technology to detect a simulated biological contaminant in the center's mailroom.* The STS-134 crew traveled to the Stennis Space Center on June 11 for a preflight visit with employees. STS-134 is the last scheduled mission of the Space Shuttle Program.* A video program sponsored by NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace aimed at helping high school students learn about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM, has won a regional Emmy television award.* Making robots, building lunar landers, and competing in a paper airplane contest was all part of the fun and educational activities at the Marshall Space Flight Center's annual ''Take Our Children to Work Day''
Date 06/18/10
NASA TV's This Week @NASA, J …
A NASA-sponsored mission in …
06/25/10
Description A NASA-sponsored mission in Alaska is exploring how changes in the Arctic's sea ice cover may be contributing to global warming.* Now, after years of continuous service to more than a dozen missions, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS 1 is retiring.* The replica Orion crew module used in the highly-successful Launch Abort system Pad Abort-1 flight test in New Mexico May 6 has returned to the Dryden Flight Research Center. * The Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station and the Marshall Space Flight Center welcomed members of the STS-131 crew to share highlights from their recent 15-day mission to the International Space Station. * While soccer fans around the world watch and await the winner of the 2010 World Cup, student players from the U.S. and Canada heard scientists and engineers from the Ames Research Center's Fluid Dynamics Laboratory explain the aerodynamics of the “Jabulani'' soccer ball.*
Date 06/25/10
NASA TV's This Week @NASA, M …
** STS-131 UPDATE: JSC/KSC T …
03/05/10
Description ** STS-131 UPDATE: JSC/KSC The STS-131 Crew and space shuttle Discovery continues their progress toward an April 5 launch to the International Space Station. Discovery has been rolled out to Launch Pad 39A, while the seven STS-131 astronauts participated in launch countdown dress rehearsal activities and other prelaunch training. ** AMES CREATES A WINNER: ARC The World Wind Java computer program developed at the Ames Research Center has earned NASA's 2009 Software of the Year Award. World-Wind is an open-source platform used to display NASA and U.S. Geological Survey data on virtual 3-D globes of Earth and other planets. ** DEEP SPACE DOWN UNDER: JPL NASA is replacing an aging fleet of 230-foot-wide antennas used in the Deep Space Network with new ''beam wave guide'' antennas that enable the network to operate on several different frequency bands within the same antenna. The replacement antennas are approximately half the size of the originals. The NASA Deep Space Network - or DSN - is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe. The network also supports selected Earth-orbiting missions. ** 2009 QASAR AWARD: GRC Christopher DellaCorte, of the Glenn Research Center's Tribology & Mechanical Components branch has received the 2009 Quality and Safety Achievement or Qasar Award for figuring out what caused severe degradation of a starboard solar array alpha rotary joint on the International Space Station. ** STEM EDUCATORS WORKSHOP: LARC Teachers became students while participating in the second annual NASA Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics -- STEM -- Educators, Workshops held this year in Charlotte, N.C. The 40-session workshop provided elementary, middle and high school teachers with creative hands-on ways to incorporate NASA content into their classrooms. The workshops are specifically designed to give teachers tangible resources for immediate use in classrooms. ** FIRST ROBOTICS KICKOFF HQ: The NASA supported ''For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology'' Robotics program began its 19th year with regional competitions like this one held in Washington, D.C. FIRST is a nationwide competition that teams young people with professionals to solve engineering design problems in a competitive way.
Date 03/05/10
Ion Engine Inspection
title Ion Engine Inspection
date 08.31.1961
description An engineer and a technician check out an ion engine in the Electronic Propulsion Research Building at Lewis Research Center in 1961. Ion engines use electrostatic charge, something like pulling hot socks out of a clothes dryer. The electrostatic charge pushes the socks away from each other. The fuel used by this device is Xenon, a gas that is four times heavier than air. Although ion engines have been around for decades, they were not used by NASA to propel spacecraft until the late 1990s. The Lewis Research Center is now the John Glenn Research Center. *Image Credit*: NASA
Simulated Van Allen Belts
title Simulated Van Allen Belts
date 01.01.1966
description Simulated Van Allen Belts generated by plasma thruster in tank #5 Electric Propulsion Laboratory at the Lewis Research Center, Cleveland Ohio, now John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. *Image Credit*: NASA
1944 Icing Research Tunnel
Title 1944 Icing Research Tunnel
Full Description The NACA's Airplane Engine Research Laboratory (AERL) Icing Research Tunnel 1944. The Altitude Tunnel is in the center background, the propeller motor drive housing in the right background, and the Air Dryer and Cooling Tower in the left background.
Date 05/04/1944
NASA Center Headquarters
25 Foot Vacuum Tank
Title 25 Foot Vacuum Tank
Full Description This 25 foot diameter vacuum tank is one of Lewis' Ion Propulsion Facilities. Advanced propulsion engines, ion engines, and electron bombardment engines, were tested here in a simulated space environment. Lewis is now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center. Ion engines have been successfully used by NASA to power the Deep Space 1 spacecraft.
Date 01/01/1963
NASA Center Headquarters
28 Romarc Ram Jet Engine in …
Title 28 Romarc Ram Jet Engine in PSL Tank
Full Description Bomarc installation in Propulsion Systems Laboratory. View showing engine air calibrator installed in altitude tank. Note view through inlet section door showing screened bellmouth with the supersonic nozzle at zero degrees angle of attack. The Bomarc was a nuclear-tipped surface to air missile for shooting down aircraft.
Date 10/05/1954
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Machine Shop Men Working at …
Title Machine Shop Men Working at Machines
Full Description Skilled machinists and toolmakers use precision machinery to make experimental engine parts at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio in 1946. The facility is now known as John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field.
Date 07/09/1946
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Main Gate and Hangar at the …
Title Main Gate and Hangar at the Glenn Research Center
Full Description View of the Hangar and Main Gate at NASA's John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio. Formerly known as the Airplane Engine Research Laboratory (AERL) under the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA),and then renamed the Lewis Research Center, for George W. Lewis, NACA Director of Aeronautical Research. It was renamed the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in 1999. Here aircraft engines and spacecraft propulsion systems are developed and tested.
Date 04/01/1999
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Aerial View of Glenn Researc …
Title Aerial View of Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field
Full Description An aerial view looking northeast towards Cleveland's Hopkins Airport. This is the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, Cleveland, Ohio.
Date 09/27/2000
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Manometer Board Setup in Sup …
Title Manometer Board Setup in Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Full Description Manometer Board Setup in the 18 x 18 inch Supersonic Wind Tunnel at Lewis.
Date 02/24/1949
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Aerial view of Lupa
Title Aerial view of Lupa
Full Description NACA-Lewis 10ft x 10ft Unitary Supersonic Wind Tunnel. The Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act of Congress, a post-war act, stipulated that NACA wind tunnels were to be made available to industry for testing. This push was to encourage the improvement of existing aircraft engines. This aerial view shows the size of the facility. The Lewis Center is now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center.
Date 05/23/1956
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Analog Computing Machine in …
Title Analog Computing Machine in Fuel Systems Building
Full Description Analog Computing Machine in the Fuel Systems Building. This is an early version of the modern computer. The device is located in the Engine Research Building at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, now John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland Ohio.
Date 09/28/1949
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Multi-Axis Gimble Rig in AWT …
Title Multi-Axis Gimble Rig in AWT with Pilot
Full Description Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility (MASTIF) also known as the Gimbal Rig in Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) with pilot during Project Mercury. The Gimbal Rig was used to train astronauts how to pull the space capsule out of a potentially dangerous spin and regain control of the spacecraft. And boy, doesn't it look like fun?! The training and tests were run at the Altitude Wind Tunnel at Lewis Research Center, now John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field.
Date 12/31/1959
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
NACA Lewis Softball Team 195 …
Title NACA Lewis Softball Team 1952
Full Description The NACA Lewis Research Center Softball Team of 1952.
Date 01/01/1961
NASA Center Headquarters
NACA Model of Ramjet with Ab …
Title NACA Model of Ramjet with Abe Silverstein
Full Description Mr. Abe Silverstein, Chief of the Wind Tunnel and Flight Research Division at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, Ohio, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, demonstrates the operation of a model ramjet aircraft engine.
Date 06/26/1945
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
NACA Physicist Studying Alph …
Title NACA Physicist Studying Alpha Rays
Full Description NACA Physicits studying Alpha Rays in a continuous cloud chamber. A cloud chamber is used by Lewis scientists to obtain information aimed at minimizing undesirable effects of radiation on nuclear-powered aircraft components. Here, alpha particles from a polonium source emit in a flower-like pattern at the cloud chamber's center. The particles are made visible by means of alcohol vapor diffusing from an area at room temperature to an area at minus -78 deg. Centigrade. Nuclear-powered aircraft were never developed and aircraft nuclear propulsion systems were canceled in the early 1960s.
Date 09/12/1957
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
NACA Seal
Title NACA Seal
Full Description This is the official seal for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) which was established by an act of Congress in March 1915. The seal depicts the first human-controlled, powered flight made by the Wright brothers in December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. NACA was later incorporated into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958.
Date 01/01/1961
NASA Center Headquarters
NACA Standard Insignia
Title NACA Standard Insignia
Full Description On April 24, 1941, at the semi-annual meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the official NACA Standard Seal was approved to be used on buildings under construction. The insignia portrayed a shield with a wing on either side and the letters "NACA" inscribed across it.
Date 04/24/1941
NASA Center Headquarters
NASA Aircraft and Ice Progra …
Title NASA Aircraft and Ice Program
Full Description NASA OV-10A Bronco, built by North American Rockwell, used for an icing test program by NASA.
Date 03/01/1973
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
New Rocket Lab Facility at S …
Title New Rocket Lab Facility at South 40
Full Description New Rocket Lab Facility at South 40 Rocket Facility. Rocket Engine Test Facility (RETF) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory Lewis Research Center, now known as the Glenn Research Center.
Date 07/31/1957
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Noise Research Program on Ha …
Title Noise Research Program on Hangar Apron
Full Description Noise Research Program on hangar apron at Lewis Research Center, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio. Noise from aircraft engines presents problems for wildlife and people and NASA has undertaken various programs to reduce aircraft engine noise.
Date 08/17/1967
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
P-61 Flight Testing Ramjet E …
Title P-61 Flight Testing Ramjet Engine
Full Description P-61 airplane in flight test with ramjet burning. The P-61 aircraft was built by Nothrup and used by the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory or AERL of the NACA to test the new jet engine. The AERL is now NASA's John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
Date 01/27/1947
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Atomic Laboratory Experiment …
Title Atomic Laboratory Experiment on Atomic Materials
Full Description Atomic Laboratory experiment on atomic materials by passing a gas at low pressure through a high voltage discharge. These experiments were performed at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, now the John H. Glenn Research Center.
Date 08/14/1957
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Block Tunnel with Missile Pr …
Title Block Tunnel with Missile Prototype
Full Description 1 x 1 foot Block Tunnel with a missile prototype model installation. These tests were performed at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, now the John H. Glenn Research Center
Date 09/11/1957
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Photo of Edmund Callaghan wi …
Title Photo of Edmund Callaghan with Cryogenic Magnet
Full Description Photo of Edmund Callaghan with Cryogenic Magnet at Electric Propulsion Research Building - EPRB. This facility is found at the Lewis Research Center, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Date 04/09/1963
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Plum Brook Aerial View
Title Plum Brook Aerial View
Full Description Plum Brook Aerial View - E Site - Missile Stand.
Date 09/30/1959
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Plum Brook: J1-Site
Title Plum Brook: J1-Site
Full Description Plum Brook J1 - Site test of a 28,000 pound Nuclear Transfer Copper Engine. This facility is located at Plum Brook Station, John H. Glenn Research Center, formerly, Lewis Research Center.
Date 02/15/1962
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Centaur Rocket Engine
Title Centaur Rocket Engine
Full Description The Centaur upper stage rocket being developed in the 1960s at the Propulsion Systems Laboratory at Lewis Research Center, now John H. Glenn Research Center. The Centaur was an ambitious rocket using liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. It was the first rocket to ever use hydrogen as a propulsion fuel and underwent a difficult development period. It later became a highly successful upper stage used for hundreds of NASA, commercial and military payloads.
Date 10/20/1960
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Centaur Rocket Installation …
Title Centaur Rocket Installation in PSL #1
Full Description Centaur Rocket Installation in PSL - Propulsion Systems Laboratory #1. The RL-10 Rocket was developed by Pratt and Whitney in the late 1950's and tested at the Lewis Research Center (now known as the John H. Glenn Research Lewis Field). This power plant was the propulsion system for NASA's upper stage Centaur rocket and was significant for being the first to use liquid hydrogen and oxygen as fuel. The Centaur suffered a number of early failures, but later proved to be a very successful upper stage for numerous commercial, NASA and military payloads.
Date 04/17/1962
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Centaur Standard Shroud at S …
Title Centaur Standard Shroud at SPF Plum Brook
Full Description Centaur Standard Shroud in the NASA Lewis Research Center's (now known as the Glenn Research Center) Space Power Facility, Plum Brook Station. The shroud protects the spacecraft during launch. When it was constructed, the Space Power Facility (SPF) was the world's largest vacuum chamber. It stands more than 122 feet high, 100 feet in diameter and provides a vacuum environment for the study of space propulsion. Originally commissioned for nuclear-electric propulsion studies, the SPF has been recommissioned for current and future use in the ongoing research and development of space propulsion systems.
Date 11/06/1973
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Project Mercury - AWT Gimbal …
Title Project Mercury - AWT Gimbaling Rig
Full Description The Gimbal Rig, formally known as the MASTIF of Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility, was engineered to simulate the tumbling and rolling motions of a space capsule and train the Mercury astronauts to control roll, pitch and yaw by activating nitrogen jets, used as brakes and bring the vehicle back into control. This facility was built at the Lewis Research Center, now John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field.
Date 10/29/1957
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Project Mercury - Capsule #2
Title Project Mercury - Capsule #2
Full Description Project Mercury - Capsule #2. Capsule complete in Lewis Hangar near Cleveland, Ohio. Lewis is now known as the Glenn Research Center.
Date 08/03/1959
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Project Mercury Altitude Win …
Title Project Mercury Altitude Wind Tunnel Gimbaling Rig
Full Description MASTIF - Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility - was developed for Project Mercury to train astronauts in gaining control over a spacecraft that could move in multiple directions at once--pitching, rolling and yawing all at the same time. This photo is similar to photo GPN-2000-001186, but not identical.
Date 12/16/1959
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
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