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Robert Goddard
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Went to Auburn with S in am. E and Mr. Roope came out at 1 p.m. Tried rocket at 2:30. It rose 41 feet & went 184 feet in 2.5 secs., after the lower half of the nozzle burned off.
Robert Goddard
Diary entry on 16 March 1926, after the launch of the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket, from the snow covered Aunt Effie’s farm (known as the Asa Ward Farm) at Auburn, Massachussetts. S is Henry Sachs. E is Esther Christine Kisk Goddard]. Mr. Roope is Percy M. Roope, Ph.D.
The first flight with a rocket using liquid propellants was made yesterday at Aunt Effie’s farm in Auburn. The day was clear and comparatively quiet. The anemometer on the Physics lab was turning leisurely when Mr. Sachs and I left in the morning, and was turning as leisurely when we returned at 5:30 pm. Even though the release was pulled, the rocket did not rise at first, but the flame came out, and there was a steady roar. After a number of seconds it rose, slowly until it cleared the frame, and then at express train speed, curving over to the left, and striking the ice and snow, still going at a rapid rate. It looked almost magical as it rose, without any appreciably greater noise or flame, as if it said ‘I’ve been here long enough; I think I’ll be going somewhere else, if you don’t mind.’ Esther said that it looked like a fairy or an aesthetic dancer, as it started off. The sky was clear, for the most part, with large shadowy white clouds, but late in the afternoon there was a large pink cloud in the west, over which the sun shone. One of the surprising things was the absence of smoke, the lack of very loud roar, and the smallness of the flame.
Robert Goddard
Diary entry on 17 March 1926, the day after the world's first liquid-fueled rocket launch.
Esther, his wife and witness to the launch, later admitted that what he said was,
“I think I’ll get the hell out of here.”
(Clark University March 16, 1926: A Historic Day).
How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There can be no thought of finishing, for 'aiming at the stars' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.
Robert Goddard
In a 1932 letter to H. G. Wells.
The Air Corps … does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating … funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.
Brigadier General George H. Brett
Chief of Material, U.S. Army Air Corps. Letter to Professor Robert Goddard regards the rejection of rocket research proposals. 1941.
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