James Everett Lipp

{{Short description|American aerospace engineer (1910–1993)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1910|7|3}}

| birth_place = Washington, D.C., US

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1993|8|13|1910|7|3}}

| death_place = San Diego, California, US

| fields = Aerospace engineering

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| doctoral_advisor = Theodore von Kármán

| thesis_title = Strength of Thin Walled Cylinders Subjected to Combined Compression and Torsion

| thesis_url = https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-01192006-141156

| thesis_year = 1935

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James Everett Lipp (July 3, 1910 – August 13, 1993)Wade 2019; U.S. Congress. House Committee on Science and Astronautics 1960, p. 67; California, Death Index, 1940–1997, James Everett LIPP. was an American aerospace engineer. He attended California Institute of Technology (MS, 1934; PhD, 1935) and began his career at the Douglas Aircraft Company, staying there until 1948.Logsdon 1995, p. 758. He then joined the missile division at the newly created Project RAND as one of the first four full-time employees, tasked by then Brigadier General Curtis LeMay to figure out how to launch orbiting satellites from a spaceship.Abella 2009, p. 18-19. Lipp would later become the head of the aerospace division at RAND and subsequently, corporate director of development planning at Lockheed Corporation.U.S. Congress. House Committee on Science and Astronautics 1960, p. 67. His recommendations to the Air Force in February 1947 helped contribute to the creation of the US civil and military satellite program during the Cold War.Davies & Harris 1988, p. 109; Taubman 2003, pp. 62-71.