http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/robert-goddard-and-the-smithsonian/ Mon, 20 May 2013 19:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/robert-goddard-and-the-smithsonian/comment-page-1/#comment-13737 Aviation News December 4, 2010 :: N8JW Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:52:13 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=2338#comment-13737 [...] Robert Goddard and the Smithsonian by The National Air and Space Museum Former Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot helped get the Space Age under way. In late September 1916, he received a letter from Robert Hutchings Goddard, a professor of physics at Clark University. “For a number of years,” the young academic began, “I have been at work upon a method of raising recording instruments to altitudes exceeding the limit of sounding balloons.” Four long paragraphs later, he finally revealed that he had been investigating rocket propulsion. … [...]

]]> http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/robert-goddard-and-the-smithsonian/comment-page-1/#comment-13604 Duane Van Schoonhoven Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:53:11 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=2338#comment-13604 ~ What a wonderful and interesting narrative about young Robert Goddard. ~ Thanks for sharing!

]]> http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/robert-goddard-and-the-smithsonian/comment-page-1/#comment-13586 J. J. Miller Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:39:52 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=2338#comment-13586 Dr. Goddard, much like the Wright brothers, is one of the most under appreciated pioneers in his field. His considerable legacy is constantly saddled with caveats, but while the others were theorists, he is The original rocket scientest!

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