jpl - Pasadena, CA
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bluesnote
N 34° 11.978 W 118° 10.492
11S E 391755 N 3784915
A plaque near the JPL entrance.
Waymark Code: WMYFT2
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 06/11/2018
Views: 5
The plaque says, "On October 31, 1936 at a site approximately 400 years to the southeast, in the Arroyo Seco River Bed, a group of students and co-workers from the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (GALCIT), with the encouragement of Dr. Theodore Von Karman, fired their first rocket motor burning gaseous oxygen and methyl alcohol.
This test led to the creation of the Galcit Rocket Research Project in 1937, formal government sponsorship of Galcit Rocket Research in 1939-1940, and the subsequent founding of the Jep Propulsion Laboratory in 1944.
Individuals who participated in the first Galcit Rocket test were:
Frank J. Malina
Edward S. Forman
John W. Parsons
William C. Rockefeller
William A. Bollay
Carlos C. Wood
Apollo M. O. Smith"
Group that erected the marker: JPL
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Pasadena, CA
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed
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