Mar 1 1999
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin officially announced the change of the name of Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, to "John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field." George W. Lewis had been the research director for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), NASA's predecessor agency, which built the research facility in 1941. Shortly after Lewis's death in 1948, NACA had named the facility "Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory" to commemorate him. NASA had modified its name to "Lewis Research Center" in 1958, when the facility became part of the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration. U.S. Senator R. Michael DeWine (R-OH) had proposed the most recent name change for the facility in the FY 1999 appropriations bill for the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies. Congress had enacted the bill into law on 21 October 1998 (Pub. L. No. 105-276). Goldin remarked that naming the Center for both George W. Lewis and John H. Glenn Jr. was an appropriate tribute to "two of Ohio's famous names-one an aeronautic researcher and the other an astronaut legend and lawmaker.”
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