Jack_Parsons was into a lot of bizarre & peculiar things.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/23/jpl-jack-parsons/viewall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)#L._Ron_Hubbard_and_the_Babalon_Working
http://www.infowars.com/the-occultist-who-co-founded-nasas-jpl