Frank J. Malina papers, 1912-1986.

Open to research.

Part I consists of correspondence, writings, reports, research files, subject files, biographical material, and other papers relating chiefly to Malina's career as an aerospace engineer at the California Institute of Technology where he was cofounder of the Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory rocket research project and director of the U.S. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Includes material on the history of aeronautics, international aeronautical societies and meetings, the periodical Acta Astronautica of which Malina was editor, and Aerojet-General Corporation. Also documents Malina's tenure as director of Unesco's Division of Scientific Research and Higher Education, Paris, France; career in kinetic art in Paris; and activities as founder of the periodical Leonardo. Correspondents include Andrew G. Haley and Theodore Von Kármán.

Part II consists chiefly of personal correspondence and biographical material. Correspondents include Malina's mother, Caroline Malina; his sister, Carolyn Malina Mercer; and friend, Jerry William Marek; and friends and family in Brenham, Tex., and in Czechoslovakia.

Aerospace engineer, rocketry pioneer, and kinetic artist. Full name: Frank Joseph Malina. Born 1912; died 1981.

Chiefly in English, with Czech and French.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013102

The Frank J. Malina Collection at the California Institute of Technology: Guide to a Microfiche Edition. Published by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., 1986. A guide to Part I of the papers in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division available at

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/25015/1/MalinaCollection.pdf