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
Not just Scientology also Aleister Crowley’s Thelema and other assorted nonsense!
Scientists\engineers are not immune to nonsense.
“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.”
There was a book length treatment on this on the internet 20 + years ago. I read it at least 5 times. It was about the Jack Parsons, L Ron Hubbard, Allister Crowley, black magic connections.
Les Claypool (from Primus) and Sean Lennon (John’s son) wrote a Rock Opera about Jack Parsons and his weird activities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOHiGonWwU