Episode 290 - Jack Parsons: The Occultist Sex-Crazed Father of Modern Rocketry
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The Life and Times of Jack and Edward Malina
After graduation, Jack wanted to pursue a career at Caltech, but his family couldn't afford it. So instead he started working full time at the powder company. But as luck would have it, Jack and Edward bumped into Frank Malina who just so happened to be writing about rocket propulsion. All three of them hit it off and they begin experimenting on rocket fuel together. Fast forward a month or two, and the three of them had almost blown up Caltech's aeronautics building and got themselves kicked off campus. They earned themselves the name the suicide squad.
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