2 pre-war issues of Astronautics, the Journal of the American Rocket Society Author: Place: New York Publisher: American Rocket Society Date: 1938-1939 Description: Comprising: Malina, Frank. “Rocketry in California, Plans and Progress of the GALCIT Rocket Research Group.” Astronautics, July 1938: pp. 3-6. The same issue has a rocket experiment report by Peter Van Dresser, one of the last Science Fiction founders of the American Interplanetary Society to maintain a scientific interest in rocketry. Truax, Midshipman Robert C. “Annapolis Motor Tests, Report on Research and the U.S. Naval Engineering Experiment Station.” Astronautics, Feb. 1939: Pp. 6-10. In the same issue James H. Wyld, John Shesta and H. Franklin Pierce, comprising the Rocket Society’s Experimental Committee, report on their own rocket motor tests. Both issues illustrated and in original wrappers. These informally produced Journals of the late 1930s represent disparate strands of rocketry research in the United States. Robert Truax, Midshipman at the U. S. Naval Academy, was one of the first military officers trying to convince his superiors of the coming impact of rocketry in warfare. After visiting the British Interplanetary Society, during World War II, he supported Robert Goddard’s work for the Navy. At the war’s end, he hurried to interview Wernher von Braun after his surrender to the Americans, eventually becoming the Navy alter ego of the Army’s von Braun during the Sputnik era. Frank Malina, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, was leader of the “Suicide Squad” of rocket enthusiasts who would become the nucleus of the Guggenheim-funded Cal Tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In this article, he reports on the rocket research under way in California. Wyld, Shesta and Pierce, the Rocket Society experimenters formed their own company at the beginning of the war – Reaction Motors, Incorporated – the first American enterprise focused entirely on commercial rocket development. Lot Amendments Condition: Holes punched in left margin affecting text; fair or better. Item number: 319720
2 pre-war issues of Astronautics, the Journal of the American Rocket Society Author: Place: New York Publisher: American Rocket Society Date: 1938-1939 Description: Comprising: Malina, Frank. “Rocketry in California, Plans and Progress of the GALCIT Rocket Research Group.” Astronautics, July 1938: pp. 3-6. The same issue has a rocket experiment report by Peter Van Dresser, one of the last Science Fiction founders of the American Interplanetary Society to maintain a scientific interest in rocketry. Truax, Midshipman Robert C. “Annapolis Motor Tests, Report on Research and the U.S. Naval Engineering Experiment Station.” Astronautics, Feb. 1939: Pp. 6-10. In the same issue James H. Wyld, John Shesta and H. Franklin Pierce, comprising the Rocket Society’s Experimental Committee, report on their own rocket motor tests. Both issues illustrated and in original wrappers. These informally produced Journals of the late 1930s represent disparate strands of rocketry research in the United States. Robert Truax, Midshipman at the U. S. Naval Academy, was one of the first military officers trying to convince his superiors of the coming impact of rocketry in warfare. After visiting the British Interplanetary Society, during World War II, he supported Robert Goddard’s work for the Navy. At the war’s end, he hurried to interview Wernher von Braun after his surrender to the Americans, eventually becoming the Navy alter ego of the Army’s von Braun during the Sputnik era. Frank Malina, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, was leader of the “Suicide Squad” of rocket enthusiasts who would become the nucleus of the Guggenheim-funded Cal Tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In this article, he reports on the rocket research under way in California. Wyld, Shesta and Pierce, the Rocket Society experimenters formed their own company at the beginning of the war – Reaction Motors, Incorporated – the first American enterprise focused entirely on commercial rocket development. Lot Amendments Condition: Holes punched in left margin affecting text; fair or better. Item number: 319720
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