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SCOUT· 27%1h 01m·2026-11-06·ScienceSpace Policy Edition: Whose JPL is it? A historian on the lab’s 90-year search for itself
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Ninety years ago this Halloween, a group of Caltech graduate students hauled a small rocket motor into the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena and tried to fire it up. It didn’t go as planned, but that moment became the unofficial birthday of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Now, for the first time in the lab’s history,…
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