WAC Corporal

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Overall dimensions WAC Corporal A

Tiny Tim booster

WAC Corporal sustainer

Notes

  1. "NASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968: A Historical Summary, Chapter 2". NASA. 1971.
  2. Bragg 1961, p. 7.
  3. 1 2 Frank. J Malina : Astronautical Pioneer Dedicated to International Cooperation and the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. 57th International Astronautical Congress. 2006. doi:10.2514/6.IAC-06-H.L.4.01. p11
  4. Landis 2005.
  5. Kennedy 2009, p. 7.
  6. Sutton 2006, pp. 360–367.
  7. Kennedy 2009, p. 14.
  8. 1 2 Zibit 1999, p. 11.
  9. 1 2 Bragg 1961, p. 42.
  10. Bragg 1961, p. 43.
  11. Zibit 1999, p. 3.
  12. Zibit 1999, p. 6.
  13. The U.S. Army Air Corps Jet Propulsion Research Project GALCIT Project, n°1, 1939-1946 : A Memoir, Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics, Volume II, Proceedings of the Third Through the Sixth History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics, 1969-1972, p 356
  14. Malina 1972, p. 359.
  15. 1 2 Zibit 1999, p. 16.
  16. 1 2 Malina 1972, p. 364.
  17. 1 2 Sutton 2006, p. 371.
  18. Sutton 2006, p. 361.
  19. Bragg 1961, p. 44.
  20. Malina 1972, p. 360.
  21. 1 2 Bragg 1961, p. 50.
  22. 1 2 Malina 1972, p. 361.
  23. Bragg 1961, p. 55.
  24. Bragg 1961, p. 56.
  25. Malina 1972, p. 367.
  26. Bragg 1961, p. 53.
  27. Kennedy 2009, p. 29.
  28. Bragg 1961, p. 56-57.
  29. 1 2 3 4 Kennedy 2009, p. 161.
  30. Eckles 2013, p. 178.
  31. Kennedy 2009, p. 58.
  32. Malina 1972, pp. 365–367.
  33. Bragg 1961, p. 59.
  34. Rockets, by Robert H. Goddard, American Rocket Society, 29 West 39th Street, New York City, New York, 1946
  35. Robert H. Goddard The Roswell Years, National Air And Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 1973
  36. Malina 1972, p. 369.
  37. Army Ordnance Research Work Cited as Rebuttal to AAF Demands, Aviation News, July 8, 1946, page 8
  38. Malina 1972, p. 368.
  39. 1 2 Bragg 1961, p. 61.
  40. 1 2 3 Bragg 1961, p. 63.
  41. Kennedy 2009, p. 40.
  42. Kennedy 2009, p. 41.
  43. Bragg 1961, p. 76.
  44. Kennedy 2009, p. 160.
  45. Bragg 1961, pp. 78, 92.
  46. Kennedy 2009, p. 50.
  47. Bragg 1961, p. 92.
  48. Bragg 1961, p. 98.
  49. Bragg 1961, p. 102.
  50. 1 2 Bragg 1961, p. 105.
  51. Kennedy 2009, p. 51.
  52. Bragg 1961, p. 107.
  53. DeVorkin 1992.
  54. Rosen 1955, p. 25.
  55. Kennedy 2009, p. 106.
  56. Rosen 1955, p. 27.
  57. DeVorkin 1992, p. 171.
  58. 1 2 Sutton 2006, p. 372.
  59. Green & Lomask 1970, p. 50, 87.
  60. Sutton 2006, p. 376.
  61. Sutton 2006, p. 375.
  62. Kennedy 2009, p. 15.
  63. DeVorkin 1992, p. 169.
  64. Eckles 2013, p. 165.
  65. NASA (2001). "Bumper 8: 50th Anniversary of the First Launch on Cape Canaveral, Group Oral History, Kennedy Space Center, Held on July 24, 2000" (PDF). p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 29, 2006.

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WAC Corporal
Frank Malina with WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg
JPL director Frank Malina with a WAC Corporal rocket (minus the solid-fuel boosters)
FunctionSounding rocket
Manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Corporation, JPL, Aerojet
Country of originUnited States
Size
Height7.37 m (24.2 ft)
Diameter30 cm (12 in)
Stages1
Launch history
StatusRetired
Launch sites White Sands Missile Range, Cape Canaveral
First flightOctober 11, 1945
Last flightJuly 29, 1950
Booster stage – Tiny Tim
Gross mass344.4 kg (759 lb)
Propellant mass67.4 kg (149 lb)
Maximum thrust220 kN (49,000 lbf)
Burn time.6 seconds
Propellantsolid