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23. Apr. 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
6. Apr. 2006 · John Whiteside Parsons (his real first name was Marvel, but you can understand why he was called John or Jack from an early age) was that most euphemistic of people, a genuine rocket scientist. Yet it’s hard to imagine anyone further from the typical idea of the role – and George Pendle does a superb job of painting a picture of the very strange and confused life of this man.
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John Carter: Sex and Rockets. The Occult World of Jack Parsons. Feral House, Venice CA 2000, ISBN 0-922915-56-3 (Deutsch erschienen als: Raumfahrt, Sex und Rituale. Die okkulte Welt des Jack Parsons. Hadit Verlag, Albersdorf 2003, ISBN 3-9808560-1-1). George Pendle: Strange Angel. The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons.
6. Feb. 2006 · This was an exhaustive biography of pioneering rocket scientist, Jack Parsons. Truth is stranger than fiction and Person's life was strange and unusual indeed. One of the founders of JPL, Parsons was an chemical engineer and rocket scientist who didn't have a college degree, yet alone finish high school. He had a brilliant mind, but became ...
5. Juni 2022 · Jack Parsons has been called the father of rocketry. Born in 1914, the term "rocket scientist" did not even exist. His childhood experimentation with explosives led him to co-found what would become the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before he was 25 years old. JPL went on to build the space crafts that launched the United States into the Space Age.
Parsons’ own religious and scientific pursuits have proven screen worthy. His life has recently been adapted in the CBS All Access series, Strange Angel, based on the biography Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle. Supercluster sat down with Pendle and show creator, producer, and ...
22. Juni 2018 · In 2002, frieze published an essay by George Pendle titled ‘ Strange Angels. ’ Taking readers back to pre-war Los Angeles, Pendle told the bizarre-but-true story of John (‘Jack’) Whiteside Parsons, the autodidact rocket scientist whose work laid the foundations for space travel. Parsons’s life formed part of ‘a strange, Pynchonian ...
