Jack Parsons - Wikipedia
John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; [nb 1] October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) …
The Sex-Cult ‘Antichrist’ Who Rocketed Us to Space: Part 1
Mar 12, 2024 · Jack Parsons was a brilliant rocket scientist, but he lived a wild lifestyle. With a devil-may-care attitude, he was pretty relaxed about safety and dabbled in drugs, occult practices, and sex-cult rituals.
Jack Parsons | Biography, Wife, & Facts | Britannica
Dec 6, 2024 · Jack Parsons (born October 2, 1914, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died June 17, 1952, Pasadena, California) was an American rocket scientist and chemist who made significant contributions to the development of rocket technology and missile systems and was a cofounder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of ...
This sex-crazed cultist was the father of modern rocketry - New York Post
Jun 20, 2018 · On the floor was the body of a man, in a pool of blood, whose face was half-ripped off and body shattered. The man was 37-year-old John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons: the father of modern...
Sex-Cult Rocket Man - JSTOR Daily
May 8, 2023 · Jack Parsons, one of the “suicide squad” trio of young rocket-boy founders of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, had an improbable extracurricular life.
Occultist father of rocketry 'written out' of Nasa's history
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
The Sex-Cult ‘Antichrist’ Who Rocketed Us to Space: Part 2
Mar 19, 2024 · When World War II ended, rocket scientist-slash-devil worshiper Jack Parsons was living with his occult friends in a commune in a grand mansion on Millionaire’s Row in Pasadena, California. And in August 1945, a fresh face showed up there—a former navy lieutenant named L. Ron Hubbard, the future founder of Scientology.
Jack Parsons Rocket Man | Science Features | Naked Scientists
Mar 8, 2006 · 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. Yet for Parsons there was never any contradiction in these subjects.
Jack Parsons - The Human Exception
Aug 18, 2023 · After much trial and error, Parsons and Forman eventually constructed what's known as a solid-fuel rocket engine, with help from correspondence they had with people like Robert H. Goddard (built the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926); Hermann Oberth (considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics; he also supported ...
Jack Parsons — Cameron Parsons Foundation
A chemical engineer and explosives expert, he was a principal scientist in the experimental rocket research group attached to the California Institute of Technology during the 1930’s. Their testing range in the area of Devil’s Gate Dam above Pasadena has since grown to become the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Parsons was also a co-founder of ...