Rocket Man

Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age

By: David a. Clary

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Hardcover | 1 August 2003

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Hardcover
324 Pages

Age
17 - 18

Grade
12+

Dimensions(cm)
23.5 x 15.88 x 2.54

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More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, the troubled, solitary genius Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) was the American father of rocketry and space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the sound barrier. Supported by Charles Lindbergh and Harry Guggenheim, through fiery, often explosive, experiments at Roswell, New Mexico, he invented the methods that carried men to the moon. Today, no rocket or jet plane can fly without using his inventions. Yet he is the "forgotten man" of the space age. His own government ignored his rocketry until the Germans demonstrated its principles in the V-2 missiles of World War II. The American government usurped his 214 patents, while suppressing his contributions in the name of national security, until it was forced to pay one million dollars for patent infringement. Goddard became famous again, monuments and medals raining upon his memory. But his renewed fame soon faded, and Goddard's pivotal role in launching the Space Age has been largely forgotten.

Industry Reviews

"Goddard's stick-to-itiveness nature is evident in the biography by David Clary and is an important reminder of what it takes to persevere and to make a significant contribution to science."
"Robert Goddard was the visionary who laid the path for America's ventures into space and Rocket Man is the story of his dream."
"Rocket Man is a long overdue tribute to one of the greatest engineers of the 20th Century--whose work helped change the future of this and many other worlds."

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