[MtnClimber]

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[ryderann]

I wanted to know if Goddard and vonBraun knew each other, and yes, they were friends.

https://www.famousscientists.org/robert-goddard/

[Zhang Fei]

Robert Goddard is about as clear an example of the scriptural snippet as you can get - A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, among his relatives, and in his own household. If Uncle Sugar had funded him, the US would have had ballistic missiles long before Germany. Of course, a missile program would have been a huge load for an already underfunded defense budget (1% of GDP) to carry.

[Paal Gulli]

Goddard an Billy Mitchell are the fathers of modern warfare. The ballistic missile (Goddard), strategic bombing and the aircraft carrier (Mitchell) collectively obliterated the safety and security of international borders.

[doorgunner69]

You try that today and the FBI will be swarming all over you/

[dayglored]

Thank you SO much for posting this APOD on Goddard. I've been interested in rockets since I was a kid in the early 60's, although my own experiments were limited to Estes models, but I did get to help design attitude control systems for real LEO and GEO spacecraft in the 80's and 90's.

Tonight as a result of your post, I ended up reading Goddard's Wikipedia page and learned much more about him that I hadn't known previously. It really made my evening! :-)