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Interview with Frank J. Malina! An Oral History, courtesy of the CalTech Oral Histories Library Online. 

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Read the .PDF! “Engineering and Science” from July 1946:

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/117/2/ES9.7.1946.pdf

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Learn about the GALCIT Research Group’s efforts in this transcription of Frank Malina’s interview: 

http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/149/1/Malina.pdf

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Calling All Rocketeers! Calling All Rocketeers!

"PROPULSION" is On the Air! 

EPISODE 02 "Pasadena"

In this Episode... Meet young Jack Parsons and his pal Ed Forman: two dreamers and model rocket enthusiasts with a passion for blowing things up. Learn how their enthusiasm for Buck Rogers science led them to a series of lectures at Pasadena's California Institute of Technology in the mid 1930s... After more than 70 years, the story of Frank Malina, Jack Parsons and Caltech's infamous "Suicide Squad" is brought to life in "PROPULSION" a 30 min. documentary produced by the fine team at BLLR Entertainment.  Set against the backdrop of 1930s Pasadena, through WWII and into the Cold War, "PROPULSION" is the heartwarming, inspirational, and sometimes controversial tale of a group of misfits, dreamers, and mavericks, the founding of NASA's JPL, and the Birth of Modern Rocketry. It's 1936. Meet the Suicide Squad... twitter.com/thesuicidesquad

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Calling All Rocketeers! Calling All Rocketeers!

"PROPULSION" is on the Air!

EPISODE 01: "June 17, 1952"

After more than 70 years, the story of Frank Malina, Jack Parsons and Caltech's infamous "Suicide Squad" is brought to life in "PROPULSION" a 30 min. documentary produced by the fine team at BLLR Entertainment.  Set against the backdrop of 1930s Pasadena, through WWII and into the Cold War, "PROPULSION" is the heartwarming, inspirational, and sometimes controversial tale of a group of misfits, dreamers, and mavericks, the founding of NASA's JPL, and the Birth of Modern Rocketry. It's 1936. Meet the Suicide Squad...

twitter.com/thesuicidesquad 

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Watch this swell BLLR Tribute to the July 1969 Apollo 11 Voyage to the Moon! Featuring archival footage from NASA and the song "Colours" by the band "Grouplove"!

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In Honor of the 44th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission, we are happy to share the Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video! Thanks to the team at Lowry Digital of Burbank, CA for digitizing, enhancing and cleaning up this amazing and historical footage!

Visit the Site! Watch the Video! Remember the Moment!

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Before Curiosity. Before the Shuttles. Before Apollo and the Right Stuff...

There was The Suicide Squad.

ALL NEW PROPULSION TEASER. 

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TAKE THE PLEDGE! 

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Read what Artist, Rocketry Pioneer, "Suicide Squad" member, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory co-founder Frank Malina had to say about the GALCIT years in his own words! 

via olats.org

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CALLING ALL ROCKETEERS! CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF FRANK MALINA!

http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=233

http://www.frasermacdonald.com/tag/frank-malina/

http://www.olats.org/OLATS/pionniers/memoir1.shtml

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At age 81, the GALCIT Rocket Research team's mentor and champion Theodore von Karman was the first ever recipient of the National Medal of Sciences. A bridge between science fiction and reality, von Karman helped usher in the birth of rocketry and the space race with applicable uses of technologies and methods once thought of as 'pretty wild ideas'. 

Visit the link above to listen to Public Domain audio of President Kennedy's remarks at the Medal Ceremony for Professor von Karman. 

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

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In 1972, at the insistence of his wife, John D. Clark set about to write a comprehensive yet "Informal" early history of liquid rocket propellants. It is a comprehensive and detailed timeline of the achievements of men like Frank Malina, Theodore von Karman, Goddard, von Braun, and other pioneers of rocketry. We recommend you take the time to read this fine rocket literature. 

(link via sciencemadness.org)

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Happy Birthday, USA

- From the "Suicide Squad"