Jack Parsons

thumb|Jack Parsons John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Aerojet. He invented the first rocket engine to use a castable, composite rocket propellant, and pioneered the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets. Quotes Science, that was going to save the world in H. G. Wells' time, is regimented, strait-jacketed, scared shitless, its universal language diminished to one word, security. Reported in George Pendle, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (Harcourt, 2005) p. 290 External links Category:1914 births Category:1952 deaths Category:Chemists from the United States Category:Poets from the United States Category:Anti-fascists Category:Anti-communists Category:Stanford University alumni Category:Inventors Category:Aerospace engineers from the United States Category:Occultists Category:People from California Category:Socialites from the United States Category:Sex-positive feminists