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Blood, Sweat & Rockets: Babalon
Season 1 Episode 6
Jack Parsons’s involvement in sexmagick threatens his position at Aerojet. And his troubles at home reach a breaking point when a red-haired, thirtysomething science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubba…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Blood, Sweat & Rockets: Women in Aerospace
Season 1 Episode 5
Women trailblazers in aerospace often weren’t credited — including one woman who accomplished critical work with the Suicide Squad: Barbara Canright. This episode explores her contributions, as well …
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Blood, Sweat & Rockets: Sexmagick in the Desert
Season 1 Episode 4
While Frank Malina struggles with the militarization of his work, Jack Parsons is not so bothered. Instead, he's having the time of his life enjoying the Squad’s success and giving in entirely to hed…
Published on 3 years ago
Blood, Sweat & Rockets: The Other Side of Frank Malina
Season 1 Episode 3
Frank Malina is wracked with inner conflict over working for the military. His calls for scientific advancement for the purpose of bettering humanity fall on deaf ears, which leads him to embrace a p…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Blood, Sweat & Rockets: Cred
Season 1 Episode 2
The semi-successful Halloween test earns the squad some legitimacy and some money. Without consistent funding, though, the Suicide Squad breaks up before they've really gotten started. Until the U.S.…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Blood, Sweat & Rockets: The Suicide Squad
Season 1 Episode 1
Meet the Suicide Squad: Jack Parsons, Frank Malina, and their crew. They're a band of young engineers, chemists, and mathematicians who saw the limitless potential of aerospace before the field was e…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Introducing LA Made: Blood, Sweat & Rockets, from LAist Studios
Season 1
From NASA sending astronauts to the moon to billionaires launching themselves into space, there’s something about the cosmos that inspires people to attempt the impossible. But none of those things m…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago