Glenn Research Center

NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field

Aerial view of Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field
Agency overview
Formed1942
Preceding agencies
  • Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory
  • NASA Lewis Research Center
JurisdictionFederal government of the United States
HeadquartersBrook Park, Ohio, U.S.
41°24′46″N 81°51′45″W / 41.412843°N 81.862399°W / 41.412843; -81.862399
Agency executive
  • James A. Kenyon, director
Parent agencyNASA
Child agency
  • Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility
Websitenasa.gov/glenn

NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field is a NASA center within the cities of Brook Park and Cleveland between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Rocky River Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks, with a subsidiary facility in Sandusky, Ohio. Its director is James A. Kenyon. Glenn Research Center is one of ten major NASA facilities, whose primary mission is to develop science and technology for use in aeronautics and space. As of May 2012, it employed about 1,650 civil servants and 1,850 support contractors on or near its site.

In 2010, the formerly on-site NASA Visitors Center moved to the Great Lakes Science Center in the North Coast Harbor area of downtown Cleveland.