Thunderbird Test Rocket, 1947 [photograph].

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Thunderbird Test Rocket, 1947 [photograph].

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Solid propellant Round 3 before firing, Inyokern, 25 November 1947. [Description from photo index.]. The Thunderbird, shown above, is the first test rocket to use a polysulfide solid fuel, developed by Charles Bartley at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The rocket test was conducted at Inyokern, California in November 1947. Al Richardson is seen on the left, with an unidentified employee on the right.

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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...

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