25 Foot Vacuum Tank
This 25 foot diameter vacuum tank is one of Lewis' Ion Propulsion Facilities. Advanced propulsion engines, ion engines, and electron bombardment engines, were tested here in a simulated space environment. Lewis is now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center. Ion engines have been successfully used by NASA to power the Deep Space 1 spacecraft.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: C-1963-
Date: Circa 1963
25 Foot Vacuum Tank
This 25 foot diameter vacuum tank is one of Lewis' Ion Propulsion Facilities. Advanced propulsion engines, ion engines, and electron bombardment engines, were tested here in a simulated space environment. Lewis is now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center. Ion engines have been successfully used by NASA to power the Deep Space 1 spacecraft.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: C-1963-
Date: Circa 1963