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#Pasadena

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Organizations (3)

  • Aerojet Rocket company incorporated in Delaware on March 19, 1942 by von Kármán, Malina, Parsons, Forman, Summerfield and Haley; bought by General Tire in 1945, merged with Rocketdyne in 2013, and acquired by L3Harris in 2023.
  • Agape Lodge California lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis, named in 1935 under Wilfred Talbot Smith and led from 1943 by Jack Parsons, whose Pasadena house drew FBI and Army counterintelligence inquiries.
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory Caltech laboratory in Pasadena that grew from GALCIT Project No. 1 in 1944, built Army missiles until 1958, and transferred to NASA on December 3, 1958; its staff figured in several 1950 security cases.

Events (1)

  • Babalon Working Series of Enochian and sexual-magic rituals performed in Pasadena from January 4 to March 4, 1946 by Jack Parsons, with L. Ron Hubbard as scribe and seer, to incarnate the Thelemic goddess Babalon.