The Big Buildup : Lab facilities started in the east, grew westerly, Universe article, 1977 Sep 16.

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The Big Buildup : Lab facilities started in the east, grew westerly, Universe article, 1977 Sep 16.

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Historical events played a profound role in shaping the JPL installation. Almost like events read in geological rock strata, three major periods in the Lab's history are evident even today in architectural forms and development patterns. Propulsion research before there was a JPL as such constitute a "preliminary period" up to 1944, reflected in several one-story, stud -wall structures, some of them still in use. In the subsequent "military period" of 1944 to 1958, the newly established Jet Propulsion Laboratory concentrated primarily on national defense projects. In that period, numerous pits, concrete bunkers, and barracks-style studand- plywood structures recall this period of military funding. With the establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958, JPL was designated a NASA site devoted to instrumented deep-space exploration. Needs for sophisticated technical and laboratory structures, as well as major space requirements for supporting functions, accounted for a major development program that continued through the early 1970'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...