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#Rocketry

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People (2)

  • 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.

Organizations (2)

  • 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.
  • 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.