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The federal government funds a research and development center, called the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It is in Pasadena, California, United States. It also holds operational base for NASA. The California Institute of Technology manages JPL for NASA. The primary function for the laboratory is to construct and operate planetary robotic spacecraft. It also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It also handles NASA's Deep Space Network.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's current projects are missions that deal with Saturn, Mars, Ceres, Vesta, and Jupiter. It has two designs of National Historic Landmarks. They are the Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator and Space Flight Operations Facility. Its origins date back to 1936. It was in the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory. It is here, that the first set of rocket experiments started. A group of Caltech graduate students tested an alcohol-fueled motor (Koppes, 1982).
They later gathered the data for one of their graduate thesis. The advisor eventually arranged for the GALCIT Rocket Project. The U.S. Army financial support helped. It was in 1939. In 1941, there was the demonstration of the first JATO rockets to the U.S. Army. In 1943, there was the establishment of the Aerojet Corporation, which would manufacture JATO motors. In November 1943, the project assumed its current name (Bello, 1959).
In 1943, Jet Propulsion Laboratory became a formal Army facility. It operations were under a contract that the university had acquired. During its Army years, it came up with two deployed weapons systems. They were the MGM-29 Sergeant and MGM-5 Corporal.
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