American Rocket Society

The American Rocket Society was an American professional organization founded in 1930 as the American Interplanetary Society by science fiction writers and early spaceflight enthusiasts, established to demonstrate that interplanetary travel was a legitimate scientific and engineering problem rather than pure fantasy. Renamed the American Rocket Society in 1934, it conducted early tests of liquid-fueled rocket designs and grew rapidly during the 1950s as government funding for upper-atmosphere research expanded, reaching about 21,000 members by the end of that decade. In 1963 it merged with the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences to form the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/