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People (1)

  • Frank Malina Caltech aeronautical engineer who led the GALCIT rocket group and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to 1946, then worked at UNESCO in Paris and was secretly indicted in Los Angeles in 1952.

Organizations (2)

  • Agape Lodge California lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis, named in 1935 under Wilfred Talbot Smith and led from 1943 by Jack Parsons, whose Pasadena house drew FBI and Army counterintelligence inquiries.
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory Caltech laboratory in Pasadena that grew from GALCIT Project No. 1 in 1944, built Army missiles until 1958, and transferred to NASA on December 3, 1958; its staff figured in several 1950 security cases.

Programs (1)

  • GALCIT Rocket Research Project Caltech rocket group formed in 1936 by Frank Malina, Jack Parsons and Edward Forman, funded from 1939 for jet-assisted takeoff, and renamed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1944.