Episode 290 - Jack Parsons: The Occultist Sex-Crazed Father of Modern Rocketry
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Thelma and the Suicide Squad
Jack and Helen were initiated into Thelma in 1941. After the senior magicians of the church realized just how intelligent Jack really was, they even had him placed as a potential successor to Crowley himself. But that all changed when war descended on Europe. Caltech became the first ever government-sanctioned rocket research group. They needed someone to figure out a way for their planes to take off without a massive runway inside of combat zones. So the suicide squad decided that Jet Assisted Take-Off or Jato was the name of the game.
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