rocket to reach an altitude greater than 50 miles. After the war, he developed the WAC Corporal sounding rocket, the first U.S. Theodore von Kármán, the group of five, including Jack Parsons and Hsue-Shen Tsien, developed the first practical solid rocket motors which, in World War II and afterward, allowed heavily-loaded aircraft to take off from short runways. Frank Malina was one of the “suicide squad” pioneers of American rocketry in the 1930s and 1940s.
