rocketry

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Without a doubt, Goddard was the father of 20th-century rocketry, but Charles Lindbergh was the midwife.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

After World War II, JPL was largely sidelined from the military’s rocketry endeavors, as the U.S. instead focused on a secret mission to bring Nazi scientists into the country to advance rocket development.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2025

He did everything he could to advertise his love of rocketry.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

On the one hand, their contributions to stunning wartime technological breakthroughs—radar, sonar, rocketry, and above all the atomic bomb—had transformed them into an intellectual clerisy, holding the keys to the nation’s future.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025

In the United States the great pioneer of rocketry was Robert Hutchings Goddard, who was born in Massachusetts in 1882—the same year my dad was bom.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins