#JATO

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Organizations (1)

Aerojet Rocket company incorporated in Delaware on March 19, 1942 by von Kármán, Malina, Parsons, Forman, Summerfield and Haley; bought by General Tire in 1945, merged with Rocketdyne in 2013, and acquired by L3Harris in 2023.

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.