LAist's new podcast LA Made: Blood Sweat & Rockets explores the history of Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Lab, co-founder Jack Parsons' interest in the occult and the creepy local lore of Devil's Gate Dam.

The improbable life of rocket scientist Jack Parsons — where jet fuel met “sex magick” — has inspired a television drama, “Strange Angel,” beginning Thursday on CBS All Access, the ...

Parsons blew up an entire batch of rocket fuel in protest when Zwicky, who had swallowed his pride and joined the company, insisted he test it. Work and play continued to merge for Parsons.

Who Is Strange Angel's Jack Parsons, the Stranger Than Fiction Scientist? The subject of the new drama series was a rocket scientist and a sex magician Liam Mathews June 15, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. PT ...

Strange Angel on CBS All Access chronicles the life of Jack Parsons, one of the co-founders of the JPL and a member of Aleister Crowley's sex magick circle ...

Jack Parsons, the JPL co-founder who developed the first rocket propelled by either solid or liquid fuel, “specialized in blowing things up,” the authors write.

Parsons is one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century for his contributions to rocket science alone, but his unusual personal life makes him even more intriguing. Check out the book!

Without Parsons, Neil Armstrong may have never set foot on the moon, and American military power might be a fraction of what it is today. But Parsons’ global significance was overshadowed by a ...

1936: Rudolph Schott, Apollo Milton Olin Smith, Frank Malina, Ed Forman and Jack Parsons: Rocket Boys, ... Dr. John Drury Clark, chemist at the Naval Air Rocket Test Station in Dover, ...

Jack Parsons, burning out his fuel up there alone. ... Parsons designed new rocket fuel after rocket fuel, and eventually they succeeded in inventing jet-assisted take-off.

Jack Parsons was a founding member of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab, with some calling him one of the 'fathers of rocketry', but you won't find much about him on Nasa's websites ...

Jack Parsons used an area of the Arroyo Seco known as Devil's Gate as his rocket laboratory. Archival footage courtesy of M.G. Lord Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism.