{"id":22958,"date":"2021-01-01T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasas-plum-brook-station-renamed-to-neil-a-armstrong-test-facility\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T12:28:08","slug":"nasas-plum-brook-station-renamed-to-neil-a-armstrong-test-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasas-plum-brook-station-renamed-to-neil-a-armstrong-test-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Plum Brook Station renamed to Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Plum Brook Station is a remote test facility for NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. It is home to four cutting-edge test facilities used for ground tests for the international space community. Today, a name change for the facility was signed into law.<\/p>\n

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As of today, Plum Brook Station is officially called the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility. \u201cNeil was a humble and patriotic Ohioan who believed the honor of serving his country was a reward in and of itself. That\u2019s why, when I asked him the year before he passed away [in 2012] whether he wanted me to pursue naming Plum Brook after him, he demurred,\u201d said Senator Rob Portman in a statement.<\/p>\n

Plum Brook Station originally acquired its name from a World War II ordnance facility called \u201cPlum Brook.\u201d It became the only facility capable of testing full-scale, upper-stage launch vehicles and rocket engines under simulated high-altitude conditions.<\/p>\n

NASA has been testing the Artemis I Orion crew capsule at the facility this year. The capsule was exposed to extreme temperatures and an electromagnetic environment similar to the conditions it will experience on the way to the moon.<\/p>\n

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