Escape from Earth
A Secret History of the Space Rocket
ESCAPE FROM EARTH is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of what became Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientist who cracked the, as he called it, problem of escape from the Earth by rocket.It's a wild ride. Jack Parsons, Malina's chemistry-expert research partner, was a bed-hopping occultist with delusions of grandeur. We get all the horrible details: drug parties and sex magic, cameos by Aleister Crowley and L Ron Hubbard, and an ill-fated attempt to start a mail-order religion. Armed with hitherto unpublished lette…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78125-970-2
- EAN: 9781781259702
- Produktnummer: 29073983
- Verlag: Profile Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.9 cm 731 g
- Abbildungen: plate section
- Gewicht: 731
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Fraser MacDonald is a lecturer in Human Geography at Edinburgh University where he teaches historical geography and the history of science. He has a regular byline at The Guardian and has also written for Aeon Magazine, The Herald, The Age, The Australian, the LRB Books blog, amongst others publications.
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