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NASA Glenn 2024 Year in Review

2024 was bright at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. We pushed innovations forward, brought the excitement of STEM to more communities, and paved the way for new discoveries. Watch to revisit some of the center’s biggest achievements from 2024.

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A Look Back at the Year’s Biggest Stories

A Space Streaming First

A NASA Glenn team streamed 4K video from an aircraft to the International Space Station and back for the first time, using laser communications.

Nose-up and bathed in soft blue lights, Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane and its Shooting Star cargo module cast dramatic shadows onto the walls of NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. The spaceplane is black, white, and dark orange, and its wings are folded up. A NASA meatball and an American flag can be seen on the wall behind the spaceplane.

Spaceplane Stacked and Shaken

Our test facilities helped Dream Chaser and its cargo module prepare for the extremes of space and future missions to the International Space Station.

View of a lit stage inside a hangar. A woman speaks at a podium. In the immediate background, the X-59 sits, newly painted in its red, white, blue and gold livery.

X-59 Fires Up Its Engine

NASA started tests on the engine that will power the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft, marking a major milestone.

A NASA insignia, also known as the meatball, is being 3D printed and appears to be green in its printing chamber with a bright laser flash in the upper right-hand corner.

Licensing Our Superalloy

NASA licensed its Glenn-invented 3D-printable superalloy, GRX-810, to four American companies to benefit the U.S. economy.

A man in a flannel shirt and jeans accesses a control panel in a room full of wires, cables, and other equipment.

Battery-Powered Engine Tests

At NASA’s Electric Aircraft Testbed, magniX engineers tested a battery-powered engine that could help turn hybrid electric flight into a reality. 

Progress on PPE

We continued thruster testing for Gateway’s Advanced Electric Propulsion System, part of the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) that will power the future lunar space station.

Final Saffire Experiment

NASA concluded the final mission of its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment, ending an eight-year series of investigations into fire’s behavior in space.

Image of two engineers wearing white lab coats facing left. The engineer on the right is working on a computer, and the engineer on the left is looking through a microscope.

NASA Tech for Heart Health

Technology invented at NASA will help monitor the health of heart failure patients through a commercial product launching soon.

The Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander for the company's first Commercial Lunar Payload Services delivery is positioned before being encapsulated inside its launch fairing. The lander is yellow, grey, black, and white and an American flag and NASA and Intuitive Machines logos can be seen on the spacecraft’s surface. The background of the facility that the spacecraft is in is white, and a large American flag can be seen on the wall behind it.

Spacecraft Propellant Gauge

A fuel gauge technology that could help scientists measure propellent levels in space was demonstrated on a journey to the Moon.

The Orion Environmental Test Article, blackened from its spaceflight, is photographed sitting on a white platform inside the shadowed aluminum vacuum chamber at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility. A woman with dark hair wearing a black sweatshirt appears in the lower right corner of the photo.

Orion Tested in Ohio

The Orion spacecraft returned to NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility and completed an 11-month test campaign.

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