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In 1942, the Aerojet Engineering Company founded on this site its first manufacturing facility for the production of rocket propulsion systems under the leadership of Aerojet's first president, Dr. Theodore von Kármán, a world-renowned scientist and engineer from the California Institute of Technology. The plant remained here until 1945.
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