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Article: Dawson, Virginia P.: Ideas into Hardware: A History of the Rocket Engine Test Facility at the NASA Glenn Research Center.(Book Review)
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Dawson, Virginia Ideas Into Hardware: A History of the Rocket Engine Test Facility at the NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland: NASA Glenn Research Center and National Aeronautics and Space Administration 144 pp., Available free online Publication Date: February 2005
Shortly before World War II, the city of Cleveland lobbied hard for a new National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) facility. The city offered land adjacent to its municipal airport that had been used for the National Air Races during the 1930s. The Flight Propulsion Laboratory (now the NASA Glenn Research Center) grew and developed over the next decades. Included in the large amount of ...