Rocket Man : Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age

More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, Goddard was the Amer. founder of rocketry & space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets & the first powered vehicles to break the sound barrier. Supported by Charles Lindbergh & Harry Guggenheim, he devised the methods that carried men to the moon. Yet Goddard is the forgotten manÓ of the space age. After the Germans launched the V-2 missiles of WW2, the Amer. gov't. usurped his 214 patents & suppressed his contributions in the name of nat. security, until it was forced to pay 1 million dollars for patent infringement. Goddard became famous again, but his renewed fame soon faded, & his pivotal role in launching the space age has been largely forgotten -- until now. Photos.Clary, David H. is the author of 'Rocket Man : Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age', published 2006 under ISBN 9780756798512 and ISBN 0756798515.