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Jack Parsons and The Curious Tale of Rocketry in the 1930s

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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. For the layperson, the rocket scientist exemplifies intellectual complexity. The phrase "it's not rocket science" instantly places rocketry as the ceiling limit on cerebral understanding. When Jack Parsons began shooting off homemade rockets in his backyard in the 1920s the very opposite was the case.   more...

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