Rocket Man
Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age
Clary, David A.
First Edition. First Printing.
More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, the troubled, solitary genius Robert H. Goddard was the American father of rocketry and space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the sound barrier, Supported by Charles Lindbergh and Harry Guggenheim, he devised the methods that carried men to the moon. Today, no rocket or jet plane can fly without his inventions.
Rocket Man is a storyof triumph over failures, of risky experiments with volatile fuels and untried technologies, of laboratory trials and fiery blastoffs in the desert. There are rockets exploding violently, others going dangerously astray - and a few thundering aloft on columns of fire, higher than any before.
Yet Goddard is the "forgotten man" of the space age. After the Germans launched the V-2 missiles of World War II, the American government usurped his 214 patents and suppressed his contributions in the name of national security, until it was forced to pay one million dollars for patent infringement. Goddard became famous again, monuments and medals raining upon his memory, but his renewed fame soon faded, and his pivotal role in launching the space age has been largely forgotten - until now.
Hardcover with dust jacket
324 Seiten / pages
photos
good condition, with a name sticker of the previous owner
New York - 2003 - Hyperion
Art.Nr. 25442
