The Glenn Research Center is located in Cleveland, Ohio between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Metropark. Its current Director is Dr. Julian M. Earls and its Deputy Director is Richard S. Christiansen.
It was established in 1942 as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) (later to become the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a laboratory for aircraft engine research.
It was initially named the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory after funding approval was given in June 1940. It was renamed the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in 1948.
Previously called the Lewis Research Center, NASAs leading center for research and development of aerospace propulsion systems in all flight regimes from subsonic to hypersonic.
Originally known as the LewisFlightPropulsionLaboratory, the facility was renamed the Lewis Research Center upon becoming part of NASA when the Agency was founded in 1958.
It was renamed again the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in March 1999.
The Lewis chemical equilibrium code with rocket performance and Chapman-Jouguet detonations for the IBM 704 and 7090 was documented in 1962 (Zeleznik and Gordon, 1962c).
Bonnie J. McBride started at the NACALewisFlightPropulsionLaboratory in 1957 and initially worked on the generation of thermodynamic data needed in the Lewis code for the calculation of chemical equilibrium composition and rocket performance (McBride and Gordon, 1961).
The NACALewisFlightPropulsionLaboratory became the NASALewis Research Center in 1958, and was renamed the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in 1999.
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