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    t. e. John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; [nb 1] October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Associated with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet ...

  2. Jan 2, 2015 · The Occult Rocket Scientist Who Conjured Spirits with L. Ron Hubbard. Born 100 years ago, Jack Parsons seemed devoted to reconciling opposites, smashing together the technical and the spiritual ...

  3. Apr 23, 2014 · Jack Parsons was a founding member of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab, with some calling him one of the 'fathers of rocketry', but you won't find much about him on Nasa's websites

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  5. Strange Angel: Created by Mark Heyman. With Jack Reynor, Bella Heathcote, Peter Mark Kendall, Greg Wise. A rocket scientist in 1940s Los Angeles is secretly the disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley.

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  6. Strange Angel is an American historical drama television series that premiered on June 14, 2018, on CBS All Access.The series is based on the biography of Thelemic magician and scientist Jack Parsons (Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle), and was created by Mark Heyman, who also executive produces and writes for the show.

  7. Mar 8, 2006 · When Jack Parsons began shooting off homemade rockets in his backyard in the 1920s the very opposite was the case. Rocketry, or the study of rockets, was not only not a science, it had not even been coined [i] as a word yet. Figure 1: The birth of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the late 1930s. A far cry from the high-tech haven it is today.

  8. Jun 22, 2018 · In 2002, frieze published an essay by George Pendle titled ‘ Strange Angels. ’ Taking readers back to pre-war Los Angeles, Pendle told the bizarre-but-true story of John (‘Jack’) Whiteside Parsons, the autodidact rocket scientist whose work laid the foundations for space travel. Parsons’s life formed part of ‘a strange, Pynchonian ...

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