Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons Pendle George Paperback
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons Pendle George Paperback Now a CBS All Access series created by Mark Heyman with executive producer Ridley Scott.ROCKET…
Specifikacia Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons Pendle George Paperback
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons Pendle George Paperback
Now a CBS All Access series created by Mark Heyman with executive producer Ridley Scott.ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSIONscreamed the headline of the Los Angeles Times. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of black magic.George Pendle re-creates the world of John Parsons in this dazzling portrait of prewar superstition, cold war paranoia, and futuristic possibility. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plot line into a reality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy.
But Parsons's wild imagination also led him into the occult- for if he could make Fueled by childhood dreams of space flight, Parsons was a leader of the motley band of enthusiastic young men who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a cornerstone of the American space program.