Pasadena, CA | Can a black arts occultist by night also be a pioneering rocket scientist by day? Sure can. We are kicking off Season 1: Los Angeles (and the Dark City series!) with the unlikely but true life story and accomplishments of Jack Parsons, one of the principal founders of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab.  Coming of age in the 1920s and early 1930s, Jack lived in a world that believed a trip to the moon would never be possible.  Always one to push the boundaries of convention, what started as Jack’s scrappy experiments with homemade explosives in the Arroyo Seco would eventually evolve into the foundation for space travel.  So why not also think running black magic rituals with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard leads to great things?  Join us as we share all of the scandalous and mind boggling details of the double life that helped shape Los Angeles as a birthplace of aerospace technology and Scientology.  

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📚 In a world where anyone can publish anything and skip giving credit to their sources, we do right by the many historians, journalists, and experts who made this episode possible by citing their work. Our key sources for this episode are listed below. A complete list can be found on our website.

-Carter, J., & Wilson, R. A. (2005). Sex and rockets: The world of Jack Parsons. Feral House.
-Pendle, G. (2006). Strange angel: The otherworldly life of rocket scientist John Whiteside Parsons. Mariner Books.
-Chapman, J. (2022, June 17). A look back at Jack Parsons on the 70th anniversary of his explosive death: Part 1 of a 3-part series on Jack Parsons. Pasadena Now.
https://www.pasadenanow.com/main/a-look-back-at-jack-parsons-on-the-70th-anniversary-of-his-explosive-death-part-1-of-a-3-part-series-on-jack-parsons

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