Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
(Top) 1 Algeria. 2 Brazil. 3 Belgium. 4 Canada. 5 Germany. ... Alcântara Space Center; ... European Space Research and Technology Centre; Norway
The facility, located at NASA's Plum Brook Station of the Glenn Research Center near Sandusky, Ohio, was built in 1968. Its first major use was for testing stages of the Centaur Rocket, which was used to launch some of America's most important space probes. [2] The facility was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985. [1]
GRC Armstrong Spacecraft Propulsion Facility (B-2) The 6,400-acre (2,600 ha) NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility or just Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility, formerly the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Plum Brook Station or just Plum Brook Station, in southern Erie County, Ohio, near Sandusky, is also part of Glenn
Ohio's rich history of aviation innovation makes it an ideally suited location for the Air Force's new U.S. Space Command headquarters or Space Force units, a group of the state's congressional ...
This list of space stations is grouped by countries responsible for their operations. The space stations where multiple countries are responsible for their operations are listed separately. Planned and canceled space stations are excluded from this list.
While other sciences, such as volcanology and meteorology, also use facilities called observatories for research and observations, this list is limited to observatories that are used to observe celestial objects. Astronomical observatories are mainly divided into four categories: space-based, airborne, ground-based, and underground-based.
Armstrong Flight Research Center: Armstrong Flight Research Center: Edwards Air Force Base, California Great Lakes Science Center: Glenn Research Center: Cleveland, Ohio Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (FFRDC) Pasadena, California Space Center Houston: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center: Houston, Texas John C. Stennis Space ...
Kennedy Space Center (KSC), located west of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, is one of the best known NASA facilities. Named the Launch Operations Center at its creation on July 1, 1962, it was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president on November 29, 1963, [ 35 ] [ 36 ] and has been the launch site for every United States human ...