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Frank Malina

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Frank Joseph Malina (October 2, 1912 – November 9, 1981) was an American aeronautical engineer and painter, especially known for becoming both a pioneer in the art world and the realm of scientific engineering. [1]

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Aerojet

Aerojet was an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Rancho Cordova, California, with divisions in Redmond, Washington, Orange and Gainesville in Virginia, and Camden, Arkansas.

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Apollo M. O. Smith

Apollo Milton Olin Smith (usually referred to as A.M.O. Smith) (July 2, 1911 – May 1, 1997) was an important figure in the aerodynamics field at Douglas Aircraft from 1938 to 1975 and an early pioneer in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics.

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Astronautics

Astronautics (or cosmonautics) is the theory and practice of navigation beyond Earth's atmosphere.

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Brenham High School

Brenham High School is a public high school located in the city of Brenham, Texas, United States.

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Brenham, Texas

Brenham is a city in east-central Texas in Washington County, United States, with a population of 15,716 according to the 2010 U.S. census.

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California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as.

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Frank Popper

Frank Popper (born April 17, 1918) is a historian of art and technology and Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the Science of Art at the University of Paris VIII.

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Fritz Zwicky

Fritz Zwicky (February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer.

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Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory

The Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT), was a research institute created in 1926, at first specializing in aeronautics research.

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History of California 1900 to present

This article continues the history of California in the years 1900 and later;for events through 1899, see History of California before 1900. After 1900, California continued to grow rapidly and soon became an agricultural and industrial power.

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Jack Parsons (rocket engineer)

John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer and rocket propulsion researcher, chemist, and Thelemite occultist.

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JATO

JATO (acronym for jet-assisted take-off), is a type of assisted take-off for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California, United States, with large portions of the campus in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

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Kinechromatic art

Kinechromatic art is a form of art in which the image, particularly in reference to the colour perceived by the viewer, changes due to some form of movement.

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Leonardo (journal)

Leonardo® is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the MIT Press covering the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts and music.

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Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology

Leonardo, The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST), a registered 501c(3) nonprofit, was formed in 1982 as an umbrella organization for the journals Leonardo (journal) and Leonardo Music Journal by physicist Roger Malina, son of the journal's founder, astronautical pioneer and artist Frank Malina.

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List of agnostics

Listed here are persons who have identified themselves as theologically agnostic.

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List of California Institute of Technology people

The California Institute of Technology has had numerous notable alumni and faculty.

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List of Czech Americans

This is a list of notable Czech Americans.

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List of Czechs

This is a partial list of famous Czech people. This list includes people of the Czech nationality as well as people having some significant Czech ancestry or association with Czech culture.

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List of inductees in the International Space Hall of Fame

This is a list of the inductees to the International Space Hall of Fame at the New Mexico Museum of Space History, in the city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States.

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Louis Dunn

Louis Gerhardus Dunn (1908-1979) was a South African-born engineer who played a key role in the development of early American missiles and launch vehicles.

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Lumino kinetic art

Lumino Kinetic art involves, as the name suggests, light and movement.

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Malina

Malina may refer to.

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MGM-5 Corporal

The MGM-5 Corporal missile was a nuclear-armed tactical surface-to-surface missile.

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Morehshin Allahyari

Morehshin Allahyari (موره شین اللهیاری; born 1985) is an Iranian media artist, activist, educator based in Brooklyn, NY.

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November 1981

The following events occurred in November 1981.

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October 2

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Qian Xuesen

Qian Xuesen, or Hsue-Shen Tsien (11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009), was a prominent Chinese aerodynamicist and cyberneticist who contributed to rocket science and established engineering cybernetics.

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Robert Esnault-Pelterie

Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (November 8, 1881 – December 6, 1957) was a pioneering French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist.

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Robert H. Goddard

Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

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Roger Malina

Roger Malina (born July 6, 1950) is a physicist, astronomer, Executive Editor of ''Leonardo Publications'' at M.I.T Press and distinguished professor of arts and technology, and professor of physics at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Sounding rocket

A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight.

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Theodore von Kármán

Theodore von Kármán ((szőllőskislaki) Kármán Tódor; 11 May 1881 – 6 May 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics.

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Timeline of space exploration

This is for a timeline of space exploration including notable achievements and first accomplishments or major events in humanity's exploration of outer space.

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William R. Sears

William Rees Sears (March 1, 1913 – October 12, 2002) was a notable aeronautical engineer and educator.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Malina

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