RETF Historic Documents
Collection of links to PDFs of historical documents, reference material, technical reports related to the Rocket Engine Test Facility’s (RETF) history, testing, and historical mitigation.
RETF Historic Landmark Materials
- Man In Space Historic Landmark Theme Study (1984)
- RETF National Historic Landmark
- Man In Space Landmark Theme Study
- National Historic Landmark Nomination
- RETF National Historic Landmark Listing (1984)
- Facilities Named Historic Landmarks (1986)
- RETF Ohio Historic Inventory Form (1996)
Facility Overviews
- RETF Historical American Engineering Report (2003)
- RETF Specifications (1954)
- RETF Overview Charts (2003)
- RETF Facility Articles (1979-89)
- RETF Complex Description (1984)
- RETF Technical Resume (c1966)
- Brief Historical Background of RETF
- RETF Significant Assets List (1997)
- RETF Key Facility Report (c1981)
- RETF Facility Modifications (1952-68)
Facility Components
- Test Cell Building Drawings (2003)
- RETF Test Stand A Specs (1984)
- RETF Test Stand B Specs (1985)
- Test Stand A Diagram
- Scrubber Descriptive Chart (2003)
- Rocket Exhaust Flow Chart (2003)
- Treatment of Rocket Facility Waste Water (1955)
- Propellant and Gas Supply Systems Specs (1956)
- Propellant Transfer and Storage Chart (2003)
- Rocket Reactant Flow Chart (2003)
- Rocket Operations Building Charts (2003)
- Blockhouse Overview Chart (2003)
- Cryogenic Vaporizer Chart (2003)
Construction
- RETF Design Meetings (1952-54)
- RETF Specifications (1954)
- RETF Design Specifications (1954)
- RETF Groundbreaking press release (1955)
- RETF Construction articles (1955-58)
- RETF Operation Bldg Location (1955)
Contextual Reference
- Engines and Innovation: Lewis and American Propulsion Technology
- Bringing the Future Within Reach—Celebrating 75 Years of NASA Glenn
- NASA Glenn’s Historical Timeline
- NACA Lewis 1957 Transformation (2017)
- Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket
- Unconventional Cryogenics from Stages to Saturn
- Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion Fuel (1945-1959)
- NACA High Energy Propellant Research in 1950s (1971)
Rocket Propellant Research
- NACA Conference on Fuels (1948)
- Theoretical Performance of Some Rocket Propellants (1948)
- Rocket Research Inspection Talk (1949)
- Liquid Hydrogen as a Jet Fuel (1955)
- High Energy Rocket Propellants talk (1957)
- Advanced Chemical Rockets Inspection Talk (1966)
- Beginner’s Guide to Rockets Rocket Propulsion
RETF Testing Reports
- RETF Testing Articles (1971-1992)
- Combustion Chamber Life Technology Program (1974)
- Performance of Gaseous Hydrogen and Liquid Hydrogen in 20k Engine (1959)
- Experiments with Hydrogen and Oxygen in Regenerative Engines (1960)
- Effect of Injector Face Configurations on Screech (1966)
- Chamber Shape Effects on Combustion Instability (1967)
- Effect of Propellant Injection Velocity on Screech (1966)
- Investigation of Acoustic Liners to Suppress Screech (1966)
- Evaluation of Screech Suppression Concepts (1967)
- Summary of Liquid Rocket Acoustic Instability Studies (1968)
- M-1 Injector Development (1968)
- M-1 Subscale Injector Tests (1967)
- Injector Element Detail Effects on Screech (1974)
- Fatigue Life Investigation of Cylindrical Thrust Chambers (1977)
- Investigation of Ceramic Coatings on Thrust Chamber Life (1978)
- Investigation of High-Aspect-Ratio Cooling Passages (1992)
- LOX Cooling of Hydrocarbon Fueled Thrust Chambers (1986)
- High-Pressure Chamber Test of LOX/RP-1 Combustion (1988)
- LOX Cooling of Hydrocarbon Fueled Thrust Chambers (1989)
- Low Cost Rocket Engine Demonstration Completed
- Low-Cost Booster and Orbit Injection Propulsion (1995)
- Pintle Injector Program description (1990s)
Airport Expansion
- Airport Expansion articles (1992-2004)
- Airport Expansion Aerial Images
- Airport Expansion Open House (2000)
- South 40 Facilities Relocation Report (1999)
- Green Propellant Capabilities of Altitude Combustion Stand