David A. Clary
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“in those days the idea of a rocket ship was just foolishness. Anyone interested in it, we thought, must have been a little off. I felt the faculty respected him as a physicist … but still [thought he was] queer.”
― Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age
― Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age
“He had discovered that a rocket was more accurate when its head end was heavier than the rest of the missile, an elementary principle of ballistic stability known to archers for millennia.40”
― Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age
― Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age
“This … made me realize that if a way to navigate space were to be discovered—or invented—it would be the result of a knowledge of physics and mathematics…”
― Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age
― Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age
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