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Can you be a great scientific innovator and a disciple of Aleister Crowley? Brian Doherty explores why rocketry pioneer Jack Parsons' motto was "Shoot what thou built shall be the whole of the law."
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|5.31.05 @ 11:02PM|#
This story is screaming to be a movie.
|6.1.05 @ 1:41AM|#
I first remember reading about Parsons in, of all places, a column devoted to role playing games: Supressed Transmissions by Kenneth Hite.
Rand Simberg|6.1.05 @ 2:43PM|#
As I noted in comments in an earlier post, while it's not necessarily Brian's fault (he can always blame the copy editor for the title, right?), it does a great disservice to Robert Goddard to call Jack Parsons the "father" of American rocketry.