The Age of Hermes
<p>With usual restraint, a <em>New York Post</em> headline of June 19, 2018, announced: “This sex-­crazed cultist was the father of modern rocketry.” The occasion was a TV series dramatizing the life of pioneering rocket scientist Jack Parsons (1914–1952).</p>
<p>Parsons, cofounder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory — some say its initials JPL mythically stand for Jack Parsons Lives — was among the brightest intellects in rocketry in the immediate post-­war era. He was handsome, deeply read, and well liked. “Jack is one hell of a nice guy and a number-­one rocket engineer,” science-­fiction writer Robert Heinlein wrote in a 1949 letter.</p>
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