Federally funded R&D center

NASA JPL

1943-11-01what this date marks is not recorded

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, born from a Caltech rocket-research group; one of its principal co-founders, Jack Parsons, was later ousted over his occult activities.

In neither threadRuled on 3 September 2026 as belonging to NEITHER thread, by reading this entity's record rather than by a term search. It is on this map through early rocketry at JPL. AN EMPTY SUBJECT IS A RULING, NOT A GAP - a missing field would have meant nobody had looked.

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JPL is one of its field centers

NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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fellow NASA-era space program figure

JPL / Caltech history (GALCIT rocket group)
← Jack Parsons names a source we do not hold

co-founded

JPL / Caltech history (GALCIT rocket group)
← Theodore von Karman names a source we do not hold

became its first director

JPL / Caltech history (GALCIT rocket group)
← Frank Malina names a source we do not hold

co-founder

JPL / Caltech history (GALCIT rocket group)
← Hsue-Shen Tsien (Qian Xuesen) names a source we do not hold

helped pioneer the theoretical rocket work that led to its founding

JPL / Caltech history (GALCIT rocket group)
← Louis G. Dunn names a source we do not hold

served as its Director

JPL / Caltech history (GALCIT rocket group)

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Federally Funded Research and Development Center. is an FFRDC; administrator California Institute of Technology, sponsor NASA Source: NSF/NCSES Master Government List of FFRDCs, February 2026 list, read 2026-08-21 by web fetch (third provenance grade - not rendered and read by eye).