you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Everyone forgets Goddard. He invented what the German scientists perfected after a lot of government investments. The US didn't want to go that way with Rocketry, until the world saw the Germans make it work.

The US set Goddard to work on Jet assisted take off in WWII.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment