http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons Comments & Reviews of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons on StumbleUpon en-us Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:56:57 -0800 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:37:45 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:18:09 -0700 http://mugwump.stumbleupon.com/review/12632771/ mugwump - "John "Jack" Whiteside Parsons (October 2 1914-June 17 1952) was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL and Aerojet Corporation. He was also an enthusiastic occultist. Parsons rocket research was central to the United States rocket program in the 1930s and 1940s notably in the development of solid space-capable rocket fuels and the invention of JATO units for aircraft. Nonetheless von Braun remarked that Parsons and not he should be regarded as the father of the American space program. Parsons was also an avid practitioner of the occult arts and a follower of Thelema. He saw no contradiction between his scientific and magical pursuits before each rocket test launch Parsons would invoke the god Pan. He was chosen by Aleister Crowley to lead Agape Lodge the Thelemic Ordo Templi Orientis O.T.O. in California in 1942 after Crowley expelled Wilfred Smith from the position. Sarah Elizabeth Northrup aka Betty began living with Parsons after his wife Sarah s half-sister Helen Northrup left with Wilfred Smith. Sarah Elizabeth Northrup later married L. Ron Hubbard the founder of Scientology and sometime magickal partner of Parsons. Parsons and Hubbard participated in a ritual known as the Babalon Working which is famous in occult circles; loosely it was an attempt to summon a living goddess and change the course of history."]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:41:13 -0700 http://hobbit777.stumbleupon.com/review/11035049/ Hobbit777 - isn't that somethin'...]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:38:25 -0800 http://lo-fi-samurai.stumbleupon.com/review/7991602/ lo-fi-samurai - jack parsons: occult rocket scientist.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons