History of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory : program and article, 1939, 1952.

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History of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory : program and article, 1939, 1952.

This series contains two items: an open house program for JPL dated 11/11/49 with a greeting from Louis Dunn and a short history of the lab; and an article -Seifert, Howard S. "The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, what it is, what it does, and how it does it" Engineering and Science 16 (11-18) 10/52.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California. The JPL is owned by NASA and managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology. The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network. Among the laboratory's major active projects are the Mars Scien...

Seifert, Howard S.

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Biography Howard Seifert, an authority on rocket propulsion of space vehicles, was professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford from 1960 to 1976. He also directed the Physical Sciences Laboratory at the United Aircraft Corporation (1960-65) and was president of the American Rocket Society (1960). Before joining the Stanford faculty, he was on the staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Space Technology Laboratories and a visiting...

Dunn, Louis G., 1908-1979.

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