Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter
English | March 10, 2005 | ISBN: 0922915970, 0922915563 | EPUB | 239 pages | 8.5 MB
English | March 10, 2005 | ISBN: 0922915970, 0922915563 | EPUB | 239 pages | 8.5 MB
Jack Parsons was a brilliant scientist whose innovations in solid rocket fuel were responsible for Allied air victories in WWII as well as early advances in space flight. A cofounder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, he was honored by NASA for his accomplishments when they named a moon crater after him.
But outside the laboratory, Parsons immersed himself in a shadowy world unknown to his professional colleagues – a world where Parsons practiced occult rituals with his mentor, Aleister Crowley, a self-professed Antichrist. When Parsons befriended L. Ron Hubbard, who later ran off with Parsons's money and his wife, his life became even more peculiar. Ultimately, his increasingly obsessive experiments – he aimed to create a creature with magical powers – sparked a chemical explosion that killed him.