NASA Glenn fuel cell improvement project advances.(News)(NASA to use advanced fuel cell for next generation launch vehicles)(Brief Article)

Crain's Cleveland Business, June, 2003

Byline: SHASTA CLARK If all goes well, NASA will be using a more advanced fuel cell to power its next generation launch vehicles. NASA Glenn Research Center is gearing up for the second and final phase of a five-year, $10 million program to develop more efficient fuel cells for space flight.

The goal of the program is to develop a fuel cell to replace the alkaline fuel cell that is used on the space shuttle today. The program will be complete in 2005, and NASA hopes to be using the more advanced fuel cells in space flight beginning after 2010, said Mark Hoberecht, fuel cell project manager for NASA Glenn. NASA recently completed the first phase of the program, in which two private companies developed a working prototype of a proton-exchange-membrane, or...

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