[AR] Re: Happy Liquid Rocket Day!

  • From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:56:17 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 17 Mar 2019, Nels Anderson wrote:

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.

Even many of his patents were posthumous -- his wife filed a bunch of applications on his behalf after his death -- by which time, both Wernher von Braun's team at Peenemuende and Frank Malina's team at JPL had independently reinvented most of them. (Malina actively tried to get collaboration established, but Goddard would have none of it.)

Henry

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