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Mar 12, 2024 · Jack Parsons practiced the occult and led a sex cult. He was also one of history’s most important rocket scientists. Jack Parsons standing above a jet-assisted take-off canister at JPL’s test site in the Arroyo Seco, Los Angeles County.
Jun 17, 2022 · Seventy years ago Friday, on June 17, 1952, Jack Parsons—rocketry pioneer, self-proclaimed Antichrist, disciple of Aleister Crowley and explosives expert, whose work helped lead to the...
May 8, 2023 · Politics & History. Sex-Cult Rocket Man. Jack Parsons, one of the “suicide squad” trio of young rocket-boy founders of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, had an improbable extracurricular life. via Wikimedia Commons. By: Matthew Wills. May 8, 2023. 4 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR.
Jun 22, 2018 · George Pendle Jack Parsons wanted to travel to the moon but the scientific establishment thought this was impossible. So, inspired by the pulp science fiction he was reading the 20-something Parsons built rockets in his backyard, inventing the science of rocketry as he went along and co-founding the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; 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 Engineering Corporation.
Mar 8, 2006 · 08 March 2006. By George Pendle. GeorgePendle1_Figure_3a.jpg. The fantastical, tragic and largely unknown story of John Whiteside Parsons is one of the most intriguing tales to be found in the annals of modern science... His life brings together the seemingly disparate worlds of rocketry, science fiction and the occult.
Jack Parsons, an explosives expert, pioneer in rocket propulsion, and follower of the thelemic magic of Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), was born Marvel Whiteside Parsons, the son of Marvel and Ruth Whiteside Parsons in Los Angeles, California, on October 2, 1914.
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