January 13, 1920 An article in the New York Times ridiculed Clark University Professor Robert H. Goddard for claiming that rockets would work in space, where there is no air to push against. Almost fifty years later, after Apollo XI landed on the moon in 1969, the newspaper retracted the criticism and apologized. Here's a page about Professor Goddard: http://www.clarku.edu/goddardfolder/goddard.html Source The learning Kingdom ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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