After his untimely death in 1952, maverick rocketeer John Parsons was revealed to have been a follower of occultist Aleister Crowley and was promptly written off as an embarrassment to science.
Ron Hubbard, and Robert Heinlein, Strange Angel explores the unruly consequences of genius..
But Parsons\'s wild imagination also led him into the occult- for if he could make rocketry a reality, why not magic? With a cast of characters including Howard Hughes, L.
Fueled by childhood dreams of space flight, Parsons was a leader of the motley band of enthusiastic young men who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a cornerstone of the American space program.
George Pendle re-creates the world of John Parsons in this dazzling portrait of prewar superstition, cold war paranoia, and futuristic possibility.
But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of black magic.
John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform the Rocket from a derided sci-fi plot line into a reality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy.
Rocket Scientist KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION screamed the headline of the Los Angeles Times .
Now a CBS All Access series created by Mark Heyman with executive producer Ridley Scott.
Here, Pendle recovers a fascinating Life and explores the unruly consequences of genius.
After his untimely death in 1952, maverick rocketeer John Parsons was revealed to have been a follower of occultist Aleister Crowley and was promptly written off as an embarrassment to science
