The "Son of the Moon": the two faces of Jack Parsons

On the one hand, with his research on the propulsion systems of space rockets, he made a fundamental contribution to the space race; on the other hand, thanks to his esoteric knowledge and the meeting with Aleister Crowley, he devoted himself to occult practices such as the infamous "Operation Babalon": we present Jack Parsons, the "mad scientist" who used to sing the "Hymn to Pan "Just before his missile tests.