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Strange Angel - The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (Paperback, 1st Harvest ed)
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Strange Angel - The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (Paperback, 1st Harvest ed)
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Discovery Miles 4 760
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ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION screamed the headline
of the Los Angeles Times. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who
helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a
reality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But
reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a
devotee of black magic.
George Pendle re-creates the world of John Parsons in this dazzling
portrait of prewar superstition, cold war paranoia, and futuristic
possibility. 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. 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. Ron Hubbard, and Robert Heinlein, Strange Angel explores the
unruly consequences of genius.
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