Glenn History Image GalleryA selection of historical photographs on NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Additional historical images can be found at: www.nasa.gov/early-years-at-nasa-glenn-a-pictorial-history/The XF-82 is prepared for takeoff with an experimental ramjet missile underneath its right wing on April 22, 1949.A Lewis photographer films the test of a liquid-hydrogen/liquid-oxygen rocket engine in Cell 22 of the Rocket Lab. Tests were...A test engineer in the RETF control remotely monitors an engine firing in 1957.C-1961-57748 8/23/1961 Interior of the 20-foot diameter vacuum tank at the NASA Lewis Research Center’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory. Lewis researchers...View into a PSL test chamber in October 1952.A mechanic examines a five-stage transonic compressor for a Westinghouse J-34 engine.NASA’s AJ-2 Savage was powered by two P&W R-2800 piston engines and a small Allison J33 turbojet. NASA selected the...Preparation of a Lewis-designed microgravity experiment to be conducted during Mercury-Atlas-7 mission. The test studied the effect of acceleration disturbances...Firing of a JATO engine in Cell 13 at the Rocket Lab in March 1946.A Boeing B–29 Superfortress parks at the NACA’s laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio. The aircraft was used in July 1944 to...Chemist Frances Dunkel Coffin at work in the Materials and Stresses Building. Coffin started at the laboratory in 1951 after...n the 1980s Dr. Ruth Pater, a quiet, determined scientist, improved state-of-the-art polymers for which she received global recognition.Newly elected BPW officers in June 1977 included (from left) June Szucs (secretary and Community Relations assistant for 39 years),...Women help conduct an aircraft engine test from the control room of the Engine Research Building in June 1944. The...In 1944, women work in the Fabrication Shop of the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory (AERL) (now NASA Glenn) during World...A 100-foot-tall crane lowers a Centaur stage through a removable dome into the Space Power Chambers’ vacuum tank on March...Fred Haise with a free-floating experiment package in the bomb bay of the AJ-2 Savage.An Atlas rocket traveled by ground to Ohio in the 1960s for testingConstruction of the AERL Administration Building in September 1942. The building officially opened on December 15, 1942.The XF-82 after sliding off the runway at Cleveland Municipal Airport on December 14, 1949. The propeller and radiator housing...The Propulsion Systems Laboratory exterior at night (9/24/1952).Cary Nettles (left) and Warren Plohr with a microgravity experiment that was recently flown on the Aurora 7 Project Mercury...NASA technicians set up the drop package test rig inside an elevator at the Terminal Tower building. The 4-inch diameter,...Mercury astronaut John Glenn prepares for a test in the Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility (MASTIF) inside the Altitude Wind...C-1960-53137 4/13/1960 The Multi-Axis Space Test Inertial Facility (MASTIF) in the Altitude Wind Tunnel at the National Aeronautics and Space...Firing of a 5000-pound thrust liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen engine from Cell 22 of the Rocket Lab in early January 1955.
