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Rocket Laboratory Image Gallery

Image Gallery for the Rocket Laboratory website: www.nasa.gov/rocket-laboratory/. The Rocket Laboratory at the NASA Glenn Research Center was critical to the development of high-energy liquid propellants in the 1940s and 1950s. The versatile suite of test cells has since tested an array of thrusters, combustors and alternative fuels. The facility was demolished in 2021.

Rocket Lab testing in February 1947.
Rocket firing from test cell.
An engineer adjusts chart recorders in the Rocket Lab's Central Instrument Building (1952).
Man looking at data recorders on wall.
A Lewis photographer films the test of a liquid-hydrogen/liquid-oxygen rocket engine in Cell 22 of the Rocket Lab.
Photographer films engine firing at night.
A 5000-pound thrust rocket being prepared for testing at the NACA's Rocket Lab (1954).
Test cell with door open.
Test schedule for the Rocket Lab test cells in October 1949.
Chart showing tests in various test cells.
Cell 23D of the NACA's Rocket Lab facility (1962).
Exterior of test cells.
Captain James Dunn (right) discusses check-in roster with guard Elmer Benesh at the Rocket Lab (1965).
Two guards at checkpoint.
Firing of a rocket engine in Cell 12 of the NACA's Rocket Lab in September 1960.
Man looking through window at test cell.
Researcher Susan Johnson monitoring a laser used to measure fuel spray in Cell 24 of the Rocket Lab (1981).
Woman watching small thruster.
Gelled propellant testing at NASA's Rocket laboratory (1995).
Thruster firing horizontally.
The Rocket Lab complex at Glenn Research Center as it appeared in November 2017.
Wide-angle photo of test cells.
Collection of materials acquired while documenting the history of the Rocket Lab prior to its demolition.
Collage of historical documents.