Comparative history of rocket development at peeenemunde in germany and at the jet propulsion laboratory in the U.S.A. from 1932 to 1945

摘要

Much attention has been pair in the literature about rocketry in the U.S.A. to the influence of Wernher von Braun and the Germans from Peenemunde upon the development of US missiles and rockets during the post-World WarⅡperiod. Undoubtedly this influence was great, but the Literature has paid less attention to the significant Influence on U.S. missiles and rocketry of develop- Ments at what became in 1944 the Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL)in Pasadena, California. This is so Despite the fact that the U.S.A.'s first satellite, Explorer I, marked the triumph not just of the von Braun team but of the JPL rocket development effort As well.