JPL celebrates 75th anniversary of event that led to its creation
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 00:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A group of Caltech students test-fired a homemade rocket in the dry bed of the Arroyo Seco in 1936. A few years later the lab was founded — the birth of rocket science in the United States.They were known as the Suicide Squad.