[AR] Re: Happy Liquid Rocket Day!
- From: Nels Anderson <nels.anderson@xxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:04:42 -0400
On 3/16/19 4:57 PM, Henry Spencer wrote:
93 years ago today, on 16 March 1926, Robert Goddard flew the very
first liquid-fuel rocket....
(Apart from its general pioneering importance, Peter Alway noted that
it was also advance notice of a shift in the center of gravity of
rocket technology: it was the first significant innovation in
rocketry to appear in the United States, rather than Europe.)
Aside from the invention of the rocket itself, which took place in
Asia. And, because Goddard's secrecy, some of his innovations had to be
re-invented in Europe before others, even Americans were able to take
advantage of them. To some extent, Goddard seems to have imposed upon
ITAR upon himself, where the 'I' stands for "intranational"!
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