Rocket Systems Area Image GalleryImage Gallery for the Rocket Systems Area website: www.nasa.gov/rocket-systems-area/. Glenn Research Center's Rocket Systems Area was essential to the development of liquid-hydrogen propulsion systems for rocket engines. The Rocket Systems Area complex as it appeared in 1960.An Atlas-Centaur rocket is at Cape Kennedy's Pad 36A for a tanking test in preparation for the June 1964 AC-3...Preparation of an Atlas missile for installation in E Site at Plum Brook Station (1963).A cryoshroud--which simulates the cold temperatures of space--set up around a test article inside the K Site test chamber (August...The High Energy Rocket Engine Research Facility (B-1) and Nuclear Rocket Dynamics and Control Facility (B-3) at Plum Brook Station...Technicians in a vacuum furnace at NASA Lewis' Fabrication Shop prepare a Kiwi B-1 nozzle for testing in the B-1...Rocket engine tests at Plum Brook Station's J Site in the summer of 1962.A view of the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen test loops inside A Site. The facility was designed to test...Interior of the Hydraulics Laboratory (F Site) at Plum Brook Station in the 1960s.Examples of historical materials gathered during the documentation of the Rocket Systems Area.This display was created to document the history of Plum Brook Station, today Armstrong Test Facility, in the early 2000s."NASA's Hydrogen Outpost: The Rocket Systems Area at Plum Brook Station" focuses on the activities at the Rocket Systems Area,...The B-3 test stand at Plum Brook Station in 2007, over 30 years after it was shut down.The vacuum chamber is visible inside the Cryogenic Tank Facility (K Site) at Plum Brook Station (1971).
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