This is another way in which early liquid rocketry was like early
aviation...
On 2019-03-17 05:04, Nels Anderson 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.)
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"!