Photo, Print, Drawing Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility, Edwards Air Force Base, Boron, Kern County, CA Photos from Survey HAER CA-163

Title

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility, Edwards Air Force Base, Boron, Kern County, CA

Other Title

• JPL Edwards Test Station

Names

• Historic American Engineering Record, creator
• Greynald Construction Company
• Ruane Corporation
• U.S. Department of the Air Force
• California Institute of Technology
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory/California Institute of Technology
• Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
• Oberth, Hermann
• Goddard, Robert H
• von Karman, Theodore
• Malina, Frank
• Structural Engineering Company
• C.E. Howard Corporation
• Capital Westward, Inc.
• Croll-Reynolds Co.
• Frank C. Brown & Company, Inc.
• U.S. Air Force, sponsor
• Edwards Air Force Base, Computer Sciences Corporation, sponsor
• Hudlow, Scott M., historian
• Anderson, Richard K., Jr., historian
• Grogan, Brian C., photographer
• Anderson, Richard K., Jr., delineator
• Schlosser, Bob, photographer
• Deats, David, project assistant
• Rittermann, Philipp S., photographer

Created / Published

• Documentation compiled after 1968

Headings

• -  nuclear weapons industry
• -  rocket propulsion
• -  rocket engines
• -  rocket development
• -  national space program
• -  space exploration
• -  military organizations
• -  test stands
• -  testing
• -  California--Kern County--Boron

Latitude / Longitude

• 34.9893,-117.87688

Notes

• -  Significance: Operated by the California Institute of Technology, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edward Facility was the United States' first university-sponsored research and testing facility for the development of liquid-fueled rocket engines and components. It became a primary national test facility. Experimental liquid propellant combinations were evaluated here, and later solid fuel rocket motors were built and tested here (including motors for the Space Shuttle). It was the site for testing interplanetary space probe engines for noted programs such as Pioneer, Ranger, Surveyor, Mariner, Voyager, and Viking. / Operated by the California Institute of Technology, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility was the United States' first university-sponsored research and testing facility for the development of liquid-fueled rocket engines and components. It became an important national test facility. Solid-propellant rocket motors were built and tested at the JPL Edwards Test Station, including Space Shuttle nozzles and motors, Syncom 1, 2, and 3 motors, Application Technology Satellites solid rocket motors, and the solid rocket motors for the Surveyor and Voyager lunar and interplanetary probes.
• -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N684
• -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N193
• -  Survey number: HAER CA-163
• -  Building/structure dates: 1945 Initial Construction
• -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1980- ca. 1989 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1957 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1959 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1961 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1961-1963 Subsequent Work

Medium

• Photo(s): 10
• Measured Drawing(s): 6
• Data Page(s): 252
• Photo Caption Page(s): 5

Call Number/Physical Location

• HAER CAL,15-BORON.V,1-

Source Collection

• Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Repository

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

• ca2001

Rights Advisory

• No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

Online Format

• image
• pdf