#history article claiming that #Goddard’s liquid-fueled rockets didn’t influence the V-2 program in #Germany. #flying
on 02026-04-28retrospective about #Goddard and #flying to #space and the #history of rockets
on 02026-04-28Aha, the notorious #NYT #Goddard editorial as plain text.
on 02026-04-28The New York Times’s infamous 01920 editorial attacking #Goddard, as a #PDF scan, entitled, “A Severe Strain on Credulity”: “Of course, [Professor Goddard] only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.” #history #NYT
on 02026-04-28#Goddard’s original proposal letter to the Smithsonian in 01916 about rockets. He thinks, “the device will, I am certain, be of very great importance to pure science, especially to meterology; whereas, although it may indeed have applications, I feel that its possibilities in warfare may be somewhat limited.” #history
on 02026-04-28Tsiolkovsky published his rocket equation, $\Delta v = v_{\text{e}} \ln {\frac {m_0}{m_f}} = I_{\text{sp}}g_0 \ln {\frac {m_0}{m_f}}$, for #flying to #space in 01903, though #Goddard and some dude named Herman Oberth derived it independently. #history
on 02026-04-28#PDF scan of the Smithsonian’s orignal publication of #Goddard’s original 01919 rocket #paper “A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes”. The illustrations are much better scanned and the typoography is better than in NASA’s collection. #space #flying #history
on 02026-04-28#PDF with a collection of papers from the #history of #NASA and #flying in #space, including an abridged and poorly reformatted version of #Goddard’s original #paper, with the figures redrawn poorly and the plates omitted, where he seems to be unaware of Tsiolkovsky’s work on the rocket equation.
on 02026-04-28