How did Goddard steer his rocket? Liquid fueled rockets were not very useful
until they developed a steering mechanism with vanes or gimbals, and that
couldn't be done until there was some sort of autopilot. Control system
failures doomed a lot of early rockets.
John
On Sunday, March 17, 2019, 8:05:20 a.m. EDT, Nels Anderson
<nels.anderson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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.)