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T O P I C R E V I E WPhilip31st October 2006 ... 70th anniversary of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory !KC StoeverThere were two very good papers on the history of the JPL at the NASM/NASA conference in September. Robert PearlmanQuoting a JPL prepared history: quote:JPL's history dates to the 1930s, when Caltech professor Theodore von Kármán oversaw pioneering work in rocket propulsion. Von Kármán was head of Caltech’s Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory. Several of his graduate students and assistants gathered to test a primitive rocket engine in a dry riverbed wilderness area in the Arroyo Seco, a dry canyon wash north of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Their first rocket firing took place there on October 31, 1936.[Edited by Robert Pearlman (October 15, 2006).]cspg quote:Originally posted by Philip:31st October 2006 ... 70th anniversary of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory !For a history of JPL, look out for the following book:- Into the Black : JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 (Hardcover) by Peter J. Westwick. List Price: $40.00. 384 pages. Yale University Press (January 15, 2007)Chris.KC StoeverYep. Westwick gave one of the papers at the conference.
quote:JPL's history dates to the 1930s, when Caltech professor Theodore von Kármán oversaw pioneering work in rocket propulsion. Von Kármán was head of Caltech’s Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory. Several of his graduate students and assistants gathered to test a primitive rocket engine in a dry riverbed wilderness area in the Arroyo Seco, a dry canyon wash north of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Their first rocket firing took place there on October 31, 1936.
[Edited by Robert Pearlman (October 15, 2006).]
quote:Originally posted by Philip:31st October 2006 ... 70th anniversary of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory !
For a history of JPL, look out for the following book:
- Into the Black : JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 (Hardcover) by Peter J. Westwick. List Price: $40.00. 384 pages. Yale University Press (January 15, 2007)
Chris.
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