Tag: robert goddard
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Robert Goddard: American Rocket Pioneer
Dr Robert H. Goddard, professor and inventor, built first liquid fuel rocket launched March 16, 1926 from his aunt’s farm in Auburn, MA. Goddard authored research monograph in 1919, “A Method Of Reaching Extreme Atlitudes,” still “considered one of the classic texts of 20th-century rocket science,” according to Wikipedia. Goddard was generally criticized in the…
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hermann oberth: father of space travel
Hermann Oberth is a rare example where science married fiction and it became difficult to tell the two apart. Oberth called the “Father of Space Travel” for his visionary writing about the future of space, was greatly influenced by Jules Verne, when at the age of 11, his mother gave him Verne’s “Earth to the…