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NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field is a NASA center within the cities of Brook Park and Cleveland between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Rocky River Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks, with a subsidiary facility in Sandusky, Ohio. Its director is James A. Kenyon.
Brook Park is located at (41.399550, −81.81 [ 7 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 7.53 square miles (19.50 km 2 ), all land.
Abram Creek on the property of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Brook Park, Ohio. Photo taken from the West Area Road overpass, looking upstream. This location is less than one half mile upstream of the mouth of the creek, where it joins the Rocky River.
Glenn Research Center (GRC), formerly the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, located in Brook Park, Ohio, was established in 1942 as a laboratory for aircraft engine research. [11] In 1999, the center was officially renamed the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field after John Glenn, an American fighter pilot, astronaut and ...
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]
Cleveland, Ohio Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (FFRDC) Pasadena, California Space Center Houston: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center: Houston, Texas John C. Stennis Space Center: John C. Stennis Space Center: Hancock County, Mississippi Virginia Air and Space Center: Langley Research Center: Hampton, Virginia
Originally located within Brook Park, Ohio, [5] the building and 90 acres (36 ha) of neighboring land became part of Cleveland in a 2001 land swap that sent most of the NASA Glenn Research Center to Brook Park.
From 1974 to 1981, NASA's Glenn Research Center (then the Lewis Research Center) in Brook Park, Ohio, led the U.S. Wind Energy Program for large horizontal-axis wind turbines, designing a series of 13 experimental large horizontal-axis wind turbines.