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LAist's new podcast LA Made: Blood Sweat & Rockets explores the history of Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Lab, co-founder Jack Parson’s interest in the occult and the creepy local lore of Devil's Gate Dam.

Caroline Lubert has been a math professor at JMU since 1999, and she focuses her research on acoustics, the mathematical study of sound waves. In her time at the university,

Engineering Students Win ‘Overall Best Project’ in ECS Project Showcase May 21, 2021 Share This: Members of the Titan Rocket team, from left, include students Tu Tran, Greg Stai, Paola Nova, Zack Mouawad, Salvador Mayoral (faculty adviser) and Brandon Alam. 3, 2, 1. Liftoff! A team of Cal State Fullerton student engineers has launched a project to design and build a rocket that can soar 10,000 feet high and carry a self-piloting glider that will release and fly back to the ground.  ...

The missile played a key role in the development of post-WWII tactical nuclear weapons. Heres What You Need to Know: Corporal was considered “the embryo of the Army missile program.” Six days after the Allies’ D-Day landings on the coast of Normandy in June 1944, Germany retaliated by launching its first Vergeltungswaffe, or Vengeance Weapon, at the city of London. The V-1 was actually a Fie-103 cruise missile designed by Robert Lusser of Fiesler Aircraft. Made from nonessential war mat...