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People (3)

  • 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.
  • Jack Parsons Self-taught Pasadena chemist who co-founded the GALCIT rocket group and Aerojet, led the OTO's Agape Lodge, was investigated by the FBI in 1950, and died in a garage explosion on June 17, 1952.
  • Qian Xuesen Chinese aerospace scientist and Caltech rocket researcher who lost his U.S. clearance in June 1950, was held under deportation orders until 1955, directed China's missile programs and later endorsed Extraordinary Human Body Function research.

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.