LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER
21000 Brookpark Road
Cleveland, OH 44135

     NASA's Lewis Research Center occupies 360 acres of land 
adjacent to the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, some 20 
miles southwest of Cleveland, Ohio.
     More than 100 buildings comprise the center which is staffed 
by about 2,800 government employees and some 1,400 on-site 
contractors.  Additional facilities, currently being brought back 
on line, are located at Plum Brook Station, about 3 miles south 
of Sandusky, Ohio.
     The center was established in 1941 by the National Advisory 
Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).  Named for George W. Lewis, 
NACA's Director of Research from 1924 to 1947, the center 
developed an international reputation for its research on jet 
propulsion systems.
     Lewis is NASA's lead center for research, technology and 
development in aircraft propulsion, space propulsion, space power 
and satellite communications.

   The center has been advancing propulsion technology to enable 
aircraft to fly faster, farther and higher and also focused its 
research on fuel economy, noise abatement, reliability and 
reduced pollution.

   The center pioneered efforts in the use of high energy fuels 
for both air breathing and space propulsion.  Projects 
demonstrated the practicality of liquid hydrogen as a fuel, 
leading to its use in the Apollo and the Space Shuttle programs 
as prime examples.

     Lewis has responsibility for developing the largest space 
power system ever designed to provide the electrical power 
necessary to accommodate the life support systems and research 
experiments to be conducted aboard the Space Station.  In 
addition, the center will support the station in other major 
areas such as auxiliary propulsion systems and communications.

     Lewis is the home of the Microgravity Materials Science 
Laboratory,  a unique facility to qualify potential space 
experiments.
     Other facilities include a zero-gravity drop tower, wind 
tunnels, space tanks, chemical rocket thrust stands and chambers 
for testing jet engine efficiency and noise.  

     A major computer complex supports both the center's 
scientific and administrative activities.  Individual computer 
work stations are dispersed throughout the center with network 
connections among them. 

     Dr. John M. Klineberg is Center Director.