{"id":21794,"date":"2020-12-20T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=21794"},"modified":"2020-12-18T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T00:02:27","slug":"what-you-gonna-do-when-you-get-out-of-jail-part-264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=21794","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat you gonna do when you get out of jail?\u2026\u201d part 264"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s video is another long one, but it is Sunday. This popped up in my recommendations totally at random.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The American Rocketeer&#8221;, a documentary about the life of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Malina\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Malina<\/a> (born in Texas, mech engineering grad from Texas A&#038;M).<\/p>\n<p>Why is he significant? He was one of the pioneering figures in American rocket development: protege of Theodore von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n, one of the members of the &#8220;Suicide Squad&#8221; (other members included <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Parsons<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qian_Xuesen\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qian Xuesen<\/a>), second director of JPL, and artist.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlNz634TjN0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bonus: This is a lot shorter, and might be interesting to people who want to know a little more about Jack Parsons: &#8220;Jack Parsons: &#8216;Sex Magic&#8217;, Drugs, and Rocket Science&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bqprZIfcsTs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/38h1y1L\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons<\/a><\/strong> (affiliate link), but I&#8217;m thinking I need to look up some of the other books on the early days of JPL, rocketry, and the personalities involved. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3renEea\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thread Of The Silkworm<\/a><\/strong> might be a good start&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Sunday! Today&#8217;s video is another long one, but it is Sunday. This popped up in my recommendations totally at random. &#8220;The American Rocketeer&#8221;, a documentary about the life of Frank Malina (born in Texas, mech engineering grad from Texas A&#038;M). Why is he significant? He was one of the pioneering figures in American rocket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-geek","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21795,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794\/revisions\/21795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}