Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket by Fraser Macdonald

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385001to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket Author: Fraser Macdonald Narrator: Oliver Wyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 25, 2019 Genres: Astronomy & Physics Publisher's Summary: The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick. Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters wrong. With the help of his friend Jack Parsons, a grandiose and occult-obsessed explosives enthusiast, Malina embarks on a journey that takes him from junk yards and desert lots to the heights of the military-industrial complex. Malina designs the first American rocket to reach space and establishes the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But trouble soon finds him: the FBI suspects Malina of being a communist. And when some classified documents go missing, will his comrades prove as dependable as his engineering? Drawing on an astonishing array of untapped sources, including FBI documents and private archives, Escape From Earth tells the inspiring true story of Malina's achievements--and the political fear that's kept them hidden. At its heart, this is an Icarus tale: a real life fable about the miracle of human ingenuity and the frailty of dreams.

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