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  2. Plum Brook Reactor - Wikipedia

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    The Plum Brook Reactor was a NASA 60 megawatt water-cooled and moderated research nuclear reactor, [1] [2] located in Sandusky, Ohio, 50 mi west of the NASA Glenn Research Center (at that time the NASA Lewis Research Center) in Cleveland, of which it was organizationally a part. The reactor was originally planned for the NACA nuclear airplane ...

  3. Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility - Wikipedia

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    The facility, located at NASA's Plum Brook Station of the Glenn Research Center near Sandusky, Ohio, was built in 1968. Its first major use was for testing stages of the Centaur Rocket, which was used to launch some of America's most important space probes. [2] The facility was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985. [1]

  4. Glenn Research Center - Wikipedia

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    GRC Armstrong Spacecraft Propulsion Facility (B-2) The 6,400-acre (2,600 ha) NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility or just Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility, formerly the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Plum Brook Station or just Plum Brook Station, in southern Erie County, Ohio, near Sandusky, is also part of Glenn

  5. Space Power Facility - Wikipedia

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    The SPF is part of NASA's Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility, which in turn is part of the Glenn Research Center. The Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility and the SPF are located near Sandusky, Ohio (Oxford Township, Erie County, Ohio). The SPF is able to simulate a spacecraft's launch environment, as well as in-space environments.

  6. Oxford Township, Erie County, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Oxford Township is one of the nine townships of Erie County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Sandusky, Ohio micropolitan statistical area and the Cleveland-Akron-Canton Combined Statistical Area. The 2020 census recorded 1,140 residents. A small section of NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station facility

  7. NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed - Wikipedia

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    NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed. The NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) is a NASA reconfigurable testbed in Plum Brook Station, Ohio, used to design, develop, assemble and test electric aircraft power systems, from a small, one or two person aircraft up to 20 MW (27,000 hp) airliners. [1]

  8. Frank E. Rom - Wikipedia

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    He became an important figure in the development of NASA's Plum Brook Reactor facility in Sandusky, Ohio. [ 1 ] Rom studied the use of nuclear propulsion systems for crewed interplanetary rockets, becoming the chief of the Nuclear Propulsion Concepts Branch at Lewis, and assisted the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with Project Rover , its ...

  9. Trojan Powder Company - Wikipedia

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    Evans, W.H. (9 June 1944), "Evans Relates Interesting History of Trojan Company In Talk For Local Groups", The Sandusky Register, Sandusky, Ohio – via newspapers.com Former Plum Brook Ordnance Works, Sandusky, Ohio (Currently NASA Plum Brook Station) (PDF) , USACE Huntington, November 2015 , retrieved 2019-08-02