Robert H. Goddard | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-02

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00:02:32 1 Early life and inspiration
00:03:45 1.1 Childhood experiment
00:05:46 1.2 Cherry tree dream
00:07:15 2 Education and early studies
00:07:47 2.1 Aerodynamics and motion
00:09:33 2.2 Academics
00:12:04 2.3 First scientific writings
00:14:26 3 First patents
00:15:18 3.1 Rocket math
00:16:44 3.2 Fight to survive
00:17:43 3.3 Foundational patents
00:19:13 4 Early rocketry research
00:22:40 4.1 Smithsonian Institution sponsorship
00:25:36 4.2 Goddard's military rocket
00:28:48 5 iA Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes/i
00:32:58 5.1 Publicity and criticism
00:34:50 5.1.1 iNew York Times/i editorial
00:36:48 5.1.2 Aftermath
00:39:08 5.1.3 'A Correction'
00:39:51 6 First liquid-fueled flight
00:40:23 6.1 First static tests
00:42:01 6.2 First flight
00:45:11 7 Lindbergh and Goddard
00:46:58 7.1 Guggenheim sponsorship
00:48:43 7.2 Lack of vision in the United States
00:52:00 8 Roswell, New Mexico
00:57:58 8.1 General Jimmy Doolittle
01:00:16 8.2 Launch history
01:00:31 8.3 Analysis of results
01:03:48 9 Annapolis, Maryland
01:11:04 10 V-2
01:14:21 11 Goddard's secrecy
01:20:56 12 Personal life
01:23:13 13 Legacy
01:23:21 13.1 Influence
01:26:16 13.2 Patents of interest
01:28:21 13.3 Important firsts
01:31:23 14 See also



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Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully launched his rocket on March 16, 1926, ushering in an era of space flight and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as fast as 885 km/h (550 mph).Goddard's work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many of the developments that were to make spaceflight possible. He has been called the man who ushered in the Space Age. Two of Goddard's 214 patented inventions—a multi-stage rocket (1914), and a liquid-fuel rocket (1914)—were important milestones toward spaceflight. His 1919 monograph A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is considered one of the classic texts of 20th-century rocket science. Goddard successfully applied two-axis control (gyroscopes and steerable thrust) to rockets to effectively control their flight.
Although his work in the field was revolutionary, Goddard received little public support, moral or monetary, for his research and development work. He was a shy person and rocket research was not considered a suitable pursuit for a physics professor. The press and other scientists ridiculed his theories of spaceflight. As a result, he became protective of his privacy and his work. He also preferred working alone because of the aftereffects of a bout with tuberculosis.Years after his death, at the dawn of the Space Age, Goddard came to be recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Hermann Oberth. He not only recognized the potential of rockets for atmospheric research, ballistic missiles and space travel but was the first to scientifically study, design and construct the rockets needed to implement those ideas.NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was named in Goddard's honor in 1959. He was also inducted into the International Aerospace Hall of Fame in 1966, and the International Space Hall of Fame in 1976.