Historical
Facilities that can no longer be booked under the name on their page. Every measurement is kept: the conditions a result was taken under are what a later reader needs in order to use it. What is gone is the ability to run something new, so nothing here is to be planned around.
- Michigan State University National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. The final NSCL experiment ran in May 2022 and the coupled K500 and K1200 configuration no longer exists [1]. Heavy ion single event effects work at Michigan State continues at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
- US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station. WES ceased to exist as a named organization on 30 September 1999 [2]. Vehicle mobility work continues at the same Vicksburg site under the Engineer Research and Development Center, but the Apollo-era single-wheel dynamometer and soil bins are documented only in reports from 1968 [3] to 1978 [4].
- NASA GRC Lunar Dust Adhesion Bell Jar. Status not established. Nothing published after 2011 describes a campaign in it [5], and Glenn’s own index of its facilities does not list it [6], but that index omits facilities known to be running, so it settles nothing.
References
- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. (2026). FRIB History. frib.msu.edu/sites/default/files/2026-01/FRIB_history_january-2026.pdf (accessed 2026-09-02)
BibTeX
@misc{frib2026history, title = {FRIB History}, author = {{{Facility for Rare Isotope Beams}}}, howpublished = {\url{https://frib.msu.edu/sites/default/files/2026-01/FRIB_history_january-2026.pdf}}, organization = {frib.msu.edu}, year = {2026}, urldate = {2026-09-02} } - US Army Engineer Research and Development Center. (1999). Waterways Experiment Station (WES), 1 March 1937 to 30 September 1999. erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/handle/11681/22942 (accessed 2026-09-02)
BibTeX
@misc{erdc1999wes, title = {Waterways Experiment Station (WES), 1 March 1937 to 30 September 1999}, author = {{{US Army Engineer Research and Development Center}}}, howpublished = {\url{https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/handle/11681/22942}}, organization = {erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil}, year = {1999}, urldate = {2026-09-02} } - Wiendieck, K. W. (1968). Stress-displacement relations and terrain-vehicle mechanics: a critical discussion. Journal of Terramechanics. Source
BibTeX
@article{wiendieck1968stress, title = {Stress-displacement relations and terrain-vehicle mechanics: a critical discussion}, author = {Wiendieck, Klaus W.}, year = {1968}, journal = {Journal of Terramechanics}, volume = {5}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/11681/46953} } - Rush, E. S., Schreiner, B. G. and Willoughby, W. E. (1978). Limited Evaluation of Experimental and Standard Tractor Dozer Blades. U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Miscellaneous Paper M-78-5. Source
BibTeX
@techreport{rush1978limited, title = {Limited Evaluation of Experimental and Standard Tractor Dozer Blades}, author = {Rush, Edgar S. and Schreiner, Barton G. and Willoughby, William E.}, institution = {U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station}, number = {Miscellaneous Paper M-78-5}, year = {1978}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/11681/48785} } - Gaier, J. R., Journey, K., Christopher, S. and Davis, S. (2011). Evaluation of Brushing as a Lunar Dust Mitigation Strategy for Thermal Control Surfaces. NASA, NASA/TM-2011-217231. Source
BibTeX
@inproceedings{gaier2011evaluation, title = {Evaluation of Brushing as a Lunar Dust Mitigation Strategy for Thermal Control Surfaces}, author = {Gaier, James R. and Journey, Khrissaundra and Christopher, Steven and Davis, Shanon}, year = {2011}, institution = {NASA}, number = {NASA/TM-2011-217231}, url = {https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120000070}, booktitle = {41st International Conference on Environmental Systems}, address = {Portland, OR} } - NASA Glenn Research Center. (2026). Glenn Labs and Test Facilities. nasa.gov/glenn-labs-and-test-facilities (accessed 2026-09-02)
BibTeX
@misc{grc2026labs, title = {Glenn Labs and Test Facilities}, author = {{{NASA Glenn Research Center}}}, howpublished = {\url{https://www.nasa.gov/glenn-labs-and-test-facilities/}}, organization = {nasa.gov}, year = {2026}, urldate = {2026-09-02} }