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I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti and welcome to Redhanded. A person based Redhanded. Oh, which we'll be doing a few more of this year, I think.

This is a fascinating case and I'm very excited personally to do this. So let's just get on with it. Let's have a question for you.

You're on have I got news for you? Uh-oh. And you have to answer the following questions. Copernicus, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Einstein, Isaac Newton, and Michael Jackson. Oh, what do all of those people have in common?

Um, batshit.

Uh, yeah, dead, dead, yes, yeah.

Naila, no points points all round. Okay, you've got two correct answers.

What specifically you thinking of what can I say? I need you to say. I don't know is that all of those people have a crater on the moon named after them.

No way Michael Jackson apparently so why not sure fucking go nuts. Anyway, having a crater on the earth's moon named after you is a very serious and rare honor reserved for history's most influential people.

And another one of these influential and extraordinary human beings is a man called Jack Parsons, a pioneer of rocket science.

You may not have heard of him, but his contributions to the field were so monumental that Neil Armstrong would likely have never set foot on the moon if Jack Parsons had never existed.

The US certainly wouldn't have the military power it has today and NASA's jet propulsion laboratory probably wouldn't exist.

But despite these unbelievable achievements, a lot of people in the scientific community would rather that the name Jack Parsons be forgotten entirely.

Because yes, he was a revolutionary pioneering rocket scientist.

But Jack Parsons was also a sex crazed occultist and deep bosom friend of none other than the inventor of Scientology slash dionetics.

He had to change the name because he lost the rights to dionetics El Ron Hubbard.

I mean, buddy best pals. This just sets this up for exactly what this story is going to.

And that friendship is probably why the scientific community chose Jack's eponymous crater on the distant dark side of the moon to keep him out of sight and out of mind.

NASA isn't exactly thrilled to embrace the fact that the origins of modern rocketry are inextricably linked to orgies, the occult and demonic rituals.

Oh, Borough, NASA. Borough, NASA, exactly indeed. I want to tap that said. Borough, NASA, give Jack Parsons a better crater.

Exactly. And you can put the NASA logo on anything because it's not copyrighted.

They go. That's why you see it on so many hats and jackets. That makes you have to pay for it.

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