In Reply to: No One Finds it Odd that they do NO Jet Propulsion work at JPL? posted by barryb on March 1, 2012 at 07:02:26:
It's not named after Jack Parsons though he was one of it's founders. The lab was always into rockets but back during WWII rockets weren't cool, jets were so they named it JPL to get government grants.
There is a great book about Jack Parsons called "Strange Angel"
Chad
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- RE: No One Finds it Odd that they do NO Jet Propulsion work at JPL? - ChadHahn 08:28:15 03/01/12 (0)