March 4, 2019

Jack Parsons: The Occult and the Art of Rocket Fuel Design | 127

Jack Parsons: The Occult and the Art of Rocket Fuel Design | 127

Jack Parsons is the subject of this week’s show. Jack was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet Engineering Corporation. He invented the first rocket engine to use a castable, composite rocket propellant, and pioneered the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets. Oh, and he also summoned the devil, was besties with Aleister Crowley, and practiced magick. You know, normal rocket scientist stuff. This week we dive into the life and times of Jack Parsons. Plus, Conspiracy Bot actually succeeds on Shark Tank (really Mr. Wonderful?), in unrelated news he now has a jingle for his Bot Booze (it’s stolen), and Dan Kozuh of TheHardTimes.net makes a return visit to the Lower 4th to talk his new book Lingeria (we’re as surprised as you are). All of that and more on the podcast that’s never summoned a demon to get a science experiment to work, we have a robot for that - Hysteria 51.

Special thanks to this week’s research sources:
Research Assistant – Raymond Walden IV

Books
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons | John Carter
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons | George Pendle
Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron | Spencer Kansa

Videos
Jack Parsons Biographical Compilation - https://youtu.be/qAvNv2zt2Vo
Jack Parsons: 'Sex Magic', Drugs, and Rocket Science - https://youtu.be/bqprZIfcsTs

Websites
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babalon_Working
Encyclopedia Britannica - https://bit.ly/2T9SmaB
NY POST - https://nyp.st/2GSc9VP
HUFFPOST - https://bit.ly/2HbSmQg
Medium - https://bit.ly/2UgSW2Q
The Guardian - https://bit.ly/2HaOjnp
Motherboard - https://bit.ly/2EHC7sz
Space Safety Magazine - https://bit.ly/1DSNAz6
Gizmodo - https://bit.ly/2IWXH0e
Lingeria - https://www.facebook.com/LingeriaBook

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