Huntsville / Roswell / Paris / Riverside / Washington / D.C. / Washington / London / San Diego / /
Company
Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Johns Hopkins University Press / Naval Research Laboratory / Glenn L. Martin Corporation / the Associated Press / Caltech / JPL / Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation / Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory / Ames / GALCIT / /
Continent
America / Europe / Antarctica / /
Country
Antigua / Germany / United States / Soviet Union / Nigeria / Singapore / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Person Travel / Employment Change / Diplomatic Relations / Natural Disaster / /
Facility
Devil’s Gate Dam / Space Museum / High-Speed Flight Station / Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory / Earthquake Valley station / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Naval Research Laboratory / Soviet embassy / Pearl Harbor / /
Holiday
Halloween / /
IndustryTerm
control technologies / instrument technology / satellite / little equipment / aerospace / defense contractor / rst satellite / satellite project / communications satellites / communications systems / present site / electronics / metal surfaces / high energy radiation / /
MarketIndex
Dow 30 / /
MusicAlbum
Venus and Mars / /
NaturalFeature
Earthquake Valley / Cape Canaveral / island of Antigua / /
OperatingSystem
Poseidon / /
Organization
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics / Marshall Space Flight Center / Army Ballistic Missile Agency / Army / JPL’s mission / Dryden Flight Research Center / Navy / the University of Iowa / Central Intelligence Agency / Texas A&M / JPL’s Army / Air Force / San Gabriel Valley Amateur Radio Club / United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization / Committee on Air Corps Research / Johns Hopkins University / National Academy of Sciences / Federal Bureau of Investigation / White House / Explorer mission / Soviet embassy in Washington / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Communist party / /
Person
Erik M. Conway / James Van Allen / Robert Goddard / Eisenhower / William Bollay / Jack Froehlich / Robert A. Millikan / Julian Huxley / William Pickering / Clark Millikan / Theodore von Kármán / John Medaris / Homer J. Stewart / Homer Boushey / Al Hibbs / Jack Parsons / Hugh L. Dryden / Louis Dunn / T. Keith Glennan / Ed Forman / George Ludwig / Lee DuBridge / John W. Parsons / Neil Armstrong / Arnold / Doug Cummings / Apollo Milton Olin Smith / Rudolph Schott / Edward Forman / Frank Malina / Neil McElroy / Martin Summerfield / Henry Richter / /
Position
rst administrator / aerodynamicist / chair of the executive board / president / space and defense contractor / head / historian / chief / biologist / electrical engineering professor / professor / de facto president / commander / General / Sergeant / administrator / also contributed professor / pilot / Explorer project manager / cosmic-ray specialist and head / Project manager / Secretary of Defense / Lieutenant / radio engineer / Professor of Aeronautics Theodore von Kármán / physicist / model / assistant director / deputy administrator / Corporal / the Corporal / director / BABY STEPS TOWARD SPACE The Sergeant / WAC Corporal / Corporal / Professor of Aeronautics / head of the guidance and controls section / Malina’s assistant director / /
From Rockets to Spacecraft: Making JPL a Place for Planetar y Science by Erik M. Conway