Weighing WAC Corporal, 1945 [photograph].

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Weighing WAC Corporal, 1945 [photograph].

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Dr. Malina, P.J. Meeks, and BobTerbeck weighing WAC in hanger, 29 October 1945. [Description from photo index.]. In September and October of 1945, a group of JPL employees tested the 16-foot WAC Corporal missile at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, for the Army Ordnance Department. More than 10 test rounds were launched, with variations in configuration and fuel loads. With each launch, the missiles were photographed, filmed, tracked and the pieces were recovered from the impact point -- sometimes alarmingly close to the launch team. What was considered to be the first successful launch of a fully-fueled WAC Corporal missile occurred on October 11, 1945. The image above shows WAC Corporal round 5 being weighed by Paul Meeks, Frank Malina and Bob Terbeck.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.). Photolab.

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One of the first people hired at GALCIT Project #1 in November 1941 was photographer George Emmerson (1913-1994), an emigrant from Newcastle, Great Britain. Audrey Voice and Mary J. Taylor as photographer's assistants joined Emmerson in 1943. Emmerson took almost all the early photos that became a part of this collection, a collection described in brief as the work product of the JPL Photolab. As JPL grew, so did the assignments to the Photolab to photograph all Laborato...

Terbeck, Bob.

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Meeks, Paul J., 1915-2002.

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Malina, Frank J.

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Frank Malina (1912-1981) was an American aeronautical engineer and kinetic artist. Born in Brenham, Texas to parents of Czechoslovakian extraction (both musicians), Malina was for many years a scientist and directed American rocket research and UNESCO projects. In 1950 he learned the basics of oil painting from Reginald Weston and began to experiment, eventually leaving his UNESCO work to devote himself entirely to the pursuit of art. An early explorer in the field of digital art and the use of ...