SRI and Stargate had some very unfortunate ties to Scientology which in turn had disturbing interactions with Allister Crowley.
OTOH so did I...
Jack Parsons was the Scientology connection with JPL. When the family watched that documentary on Scientology a few (five? more?) years back, the mention of Jack Parsons startled me.
https://gizmodo.com/the-strangely-true-connection-between-scientology-the-5978746
Jack Parsons. Effed around with the occult and found out. Blowed up real good.