Lewis Field Historic District

Side A: Lewis Field Historic District Side B: With the advent of the Space Age in 1957 after the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik I, the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) began to conduct space research. In July, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In October 1958, the NACA was incorporated in the newly founded NASA and the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory was renamed the NASA Lewis Research Center. In 1999, the Center was renamed again as the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field to honor the first American to orbit the Earth. Established in 2016, the Lewis Historic District’s period of significance is 1941-1972, during which it contributed to the success of the Apollo program, which placed U.S. astronauts on the moon.