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Plum Brook Station is a remote test installation site for the NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio.  Plum Brook performs complex and innovative ground tests for the United States Government (civilian and military), the International Aerospace Community, as well as the private sector.

 

Every test program handled at Plum Brook is unique; therefore, we believe direct contact between ourselves and the test customer is critical in establishing a working relationship.  

The potential test customer provides the basic test requirements to the NASA Plum Brook Test Program Manager. Working with the test customer, the Test Program Manager establishes the objective and requirements of the test program; identifies the most suitable test site for the program; then develops a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimate of the cost of the program.  If it is mutually agreed upon to proceed with the test program, this process will be continued with the development of a formal Work Plan per Glenn Research Center procedures.

 

For more information about our the unique test facilities, please visit our Test Facilities page.

 

Contact Information

 

Plum Brook 

Management Office

Rich Kunath , Chief of Operations

6100 Columbus Avenue

Sandusky, OH  44870

Phone:

419/621-3205

Fax:

419/621-3236

Space Power Facility (SPF)

Gerald.A.Carek@nasa.gov

Space Propulsion Test Facility (B-2)

Kurt.A.Shalkhauser@nasa.gov

Hypersonic Tunnel Facility (HTF)

Mark.R.Woike@nasa.gov

Cryogenic Propellant Tank Facility (K-Site)

Jeffrey.A.Chambers@nasa.gov

 

The Plum Brook Environment

Located about 50 miles west of NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC), near Sandusky, Ohio, on 6,400 acres of land, the extensive controlled land at Plum Brook provides required large clear zone areas for dangerous aerospace testing with LH2, LO2, LN2, etc.  

Plum Brook is accessible by water through the St. Lawrence Seaway, and by air via Mansfield, Ohio's Lahm Airport's 9,000-ft. runway.  Plum Brook is also located adjacent to Interstates 80/90.

Market Economy Operations

  • Minimum NASA Civil Service Staff provides Leadership and Oversight  
  • Maximum Use of Performance Based Contractors provide Implementation
    • Efficient, highly flexible work force
    • Test Operations
    • Procurement
    • Labor, Materials, Consumables,
    • Institutional Support
    • Facility Upgrades, Security, Utilities

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