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[Phys-l] Word, from the NYT (1920)





As a method of sending a missile to the higher, and even to the
highest parts of the earth's atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard's
rocket is a practicable and therefore promising device. It is when one
considers the multiple-charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that
one begins to doubt . . . for after the rocket quits our air and
really starts on its journey, its flight would be neither accelerated
nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have
left. Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in Clark College and
countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the
relation of action to re-action, and of the need to have something
better than a vacuum against which to react . . . Of course he only
seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. - New
York Times editorial, 1920


bc, who, even if free, wouldn't read the NYT.

p.s. Panzers to Sam Smith.

p.p.s What does the NYT have to write regarding PER, etc?