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American pre-Space Age rocket engineer
and second director of the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (1944-46). As a PhD student at the California Institute of
Technology in the mid-1930s, Malina began a research program to design a
high-altitude sounding
rocket. Beginning in 1936, he and his colleagues started the static
testing of rocket engines in the canyons above the Rose Bowl, with mixed
results, but a series of tests eventually led to the development of the WAC-Corporal
rocket during World War II. After the war, Malina worked with the United
Nations and eventually retired to Paris to pursue a career as an
artist.
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