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The American Rocket Society (ARS) began its existence on 4 April 1930, under the name of the American Interplanetary Society. It was founded by science fiction writers George Edward Pendray, David Lasser, Laurence Manning, Nathan Schachner, Lee (Gregory) Pendray, Charles P. Mason, Charles W. Van DeVander, Fletcher Pratt, Adolph L. Fierst, William Lemkin, Warren Fitzgerald, and either Everett Long or Roy A. Giles. The members originally began conducting rocket experiments in New York and New Jersey. [1]
The AIS did pioneering work in testing the design requirements of liquid-fueled rockets, with a number of successful test launches of ARS rockets occurring in this period and pointing the way to the United States space program. Its name was changed to American Rocket Society on 6 April 1934.
Membership increased rapidly in the 1950s as the government funded "upper air research", and by the end of the decade it had reached 21,000. In early 1963, the ARS merged with the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences to become the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
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