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Transcripts For CSPAN NASA Glenn Research Center 20240713

We are the third oldest of the nasa centers. We broke ground on 1941. We predate nasa by a little under 18 years. For the National Advisory committee for aeronautics founded in 1915 in the infancy of aviation in this country to study this new technology and figure out how we can harness it for economic military use. Prior to this they only focused on general aeronautics. They had not done anything with that have beens seeing what they were doing in europe and found that they were way ahead of us when it came to Aircraft Engine Research especially the germans. In the late 1930s that made them nervous. The establishment of a Third Laboratory that would focus on aircraft engines. You can do all the Aerodynamic Research that was our single role, to ....

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