A Severe Strain on the Credulity As a method of sending a missile to the higher, and even to the highest parts of the earths atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddards rocket is a practicable and therefore promising device. It is when one considers the multiple-charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that one begins to doubt ... for after the rocket quits our air and really starts on its journey, its flight would be neither accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left. Professor Goddard, with his chair in Clark College and countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to re-action, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react ... Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. -- New York Times Editorial, 1920
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:00:00 +0000
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