JPL Podcast on Frank Malina: The American Rocketeer http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/podcast/content.cfm?content=1029 The documentary is being shown Nov 3 on KCET in Los Angeles Open with music and voice track from “The American Rocketeer”: This is the story of one man’s reach for the stars. And how his ideas and idealism put him on a collision course with [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Frank Malina category.
75TH Anniversary of first rocket tests by Frank Malina oct 31 2011
This halloween is the 75th anniversary of the first rocket tests that led to the WAC CORPORAL rocket that my father Frank Malina and his team built, project that led to the founding of the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab on the site of the rocket tests JPL has issued a documentary-details of screenings below the [...]
Transcripts from “Propulsion” Interview with Roger Malina
Roger Malina remembers his father, JPL co-founder Frank Malina, see http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/Roger+Malina
Kepes and Malina : Some personal observations on Theory and Praxis (First Draft)
by Roger F Malina When Nina Czegledy and Rona Kopeczky proposed to me their exhibition on Gyorgy Kepes and my father Frank Malina, I was immediately interested. It seemed a natural coupling of two men of the same era, eastern European backgrounds, both were survivors of the same world war and with over-lapping passions. Both [...]
Now online: Roger Malina on Frank Malina: IAC 2006
FRANK J. MALINA: ASTRONAUTICAL PIONEER DEDICATED TO INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND THE PEACEFUL USES OF OUTER SPACE by Roger Malina. 57th International Astronautical Congress 2006
Article: Frank Malina at the JPL
From Rocketeers to Solar Sailors Los Angeles Times article (November 14, 1999) by Marvin J. Wolf on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with some history of Frank Malina’s tenure there.
The Frank Malina Archive
The Frank Malina archive is intended to supplement the Frank Malina introduction at www.olats.org. Stay tuned for a short history, artwork, information about exhibitions, a list of publications, excerpts from his FBI file and more.