# Launching the Future of Flight- Engines (20250220-AAV3553-NACA-Series-Engines-Glenn-v1)

Twenty years before rockets carried the first humans out of our atmosphere, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the NACA, built a laboratory dedicated to aircraft propulsion. Built in 1941 in Cleveland, the lab became NASA’s Glenn Research Center. From testing some of the nation’s first jet engines and building innovative facilities, the lab has and applied its expertise to space since the founding of NASA.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: NASA Ames Research Center
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Launching_the_Future_of_Flight-_Engines_(20250220-AAV3553-NACA-Series-Engines-Glenn-v1).webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/187686029?play=1)