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... with Robert Condit, who built a rocket in 1928 that he planned to fly from Baltimore to Venus.
Condit's spaceship was a 24-foot-long bullet made of angle iron and ... to Venus."
Modern Mechanix published this illustration of Condit and his rocket. The inset at the lower left is actually a diagram of the spaceship designed by Hermann Oberth .
The rocket took 8 months to build. It was fueled and ...
... rockets in space, and that they would function in a vacuum (something few, if any, other science fiction authors, and fewer scientists, seemed to be aware of), is illustrated by his use of rockets ... the rockets designed by Jules Verne." We've already mentioned von Braun's expression of debt. Other space pioneers Verne influenced include American rocket inventor Robert H. Goddard; Russian rocket ...
... of gases, formed by explosive ignition, to perform work ... Robert Hutchings Goddard Robert Goddard launched the first gimbal-steered rocket in 1937. Even so, the method was so technologically complex that even the engineers of the giant German V2 rocket ... rocket using a gimbal-mounted motor---the American Viking sounding rocket---wasn’t flown until 1949, 68 years after Kibalchich was executed and his ...
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In 1931, Robert Hutchings Goddard Robert Goddard filed a patent ( 1,809,271) for an aircraft that would be powered by rocket turbines. Although Goddard ... s air to the moon and beyond." Goddard tried to interest the military in his invention, but received the cold shoulder he had grown to expect.
Image:Goddards_original_sketch_for_his_rocket_plane.jpg ...
... propelled by rockets only, unless the dream of some scientists is realized whereby we will be able to release and control the almost limitless energy stored in atoms.”
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''Northrup's diagram of his moon rocket.''
NASA has embraced the ...
... Hale rockets of the Civil War. Their unreliability, small size and lack of power was one of the reasons Jules Verne chose to launch his astronauts by means of a giant cannon. One way to prove the effectiveness of rockets as a viable method of propulsion to ...
... , lecturer and promoter of some pretty interesting ideas, such as the one he and his brother had of flying a rocket to the moon. He and brother Floyd operated a shop where they repaired cars and aircraft. They had been fascinated by aviation even before the ...
... with in 1923. Looking over all the possible ways to launch a spacecraft to the moon, he dismissed such things as antigravity and nuclear power and settled on something that I, for one, would ... deep into granite bedrock and the whole thing reinforced by heavy chain tie-downs. The wheel would be turned by an enormous electric motor. Compressed-air bearings would reduce friction to a minimum. At ...
... the co-winner of the 1970 Robert H. Goddard Essay Award sponsored by the National Space Club. (The other section of the paper covered Hale's rockets.) This also marks the first time the biographical section has been published in its entirety since until now only abbreviated versions have appeared in print.
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... Edwin Fitch Northrup by Ron Miller
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Robert Goddard's Rocket Plane by Ron Miller
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Nicolai Kibalchich by Ron Miller
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