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"The brighter things get, the less one is really able to see them."

– Robert Goddard, in American Painting, 1990.

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summary of that one letter to high blade jordan in the toll

#this is months old i didnt have anywhere to post it #i was reading the letter and my draw dropped #‘it is my sincerest hope that you self-glean in the not-too-distant future’ WHATTTTT #robert goddard #scythe goddard #the toll #arc of a scythe #aoas

On this day 100 years ago (16 March 1926), Robert Goddard conducted a demonstration launch for the first liquid-fuel rocket. This technology would form the basis not only for the subsequent space programme, but also for modern aviation.

(I also saw that photo all the time when I was in undergrad because it was in the physics building, so of course now it has some nostalgia for me.)

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2026 is such a cool year for rocket scientists.

This year we have:

Centenary of liquid propulsion

Coming up literally next week!

March 16, 1926: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fuelled rocket, which reached a grand total altitude of 41 feet and set wheels in motion for all of liquid rocketry up to and including my current research, the Apollo program, and the stuff I sent to the moon and separately to the ISS few years ago.

We also have this year:

Thunderbirds Year

I am possibly more excited for this, being as how my first foray into fanfic was for Thunderbirds and I'm a second-generation Thunderbirds fan (my mother was really into them as well, particularly Virgil, and I have inherited her blorbo from her shows not once but, if you consider her opinion of Qui-Gon Jinn, arguably twice)

Uh if you missed that reference, Thunderbirds is a kids TV show from 1966, which is set in 2026. I have seen all of it multiple times and can still tell you off the top of my head what any given episode was from a couple of details. Also my brother and I conspired to keep the precious out-of-print History of Supermarionation book (dealing with the Making Of Thunderbirds and also the shows that happened either side of it) out of the library for nearly three years in several six-month stretches.

What does this have to do with rocket science well ALL THE FUCKING ROCKET SHIPS IN THUNDERBIRDS would be a bit of a clue.

Might do a post later breaking down how good Gerry Anderson's crystal ball was if anyone is interested.

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They’re on call with Faraday

Goddard: We only have one tactic left to deal with the Old Guard. Guerrilla war.

Morrison: Oooh Gorilla always wins!

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Rockets and Robert Goddard - June 15th, 1997.

"Robert H. Goddard, one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1882. As a 16 year old, Goddard read H.G. Wells' science fiction classic "War Of The Worlds" and dreamed of spaceflight. By 1926 he had designed, built, and launched the world's first liquid fuel rocket. During his career he was ridiculed by the press for suggesting that rockets could be flown to the Moon, but he kept up his experiments in rocketry, supported in part by the Smithsonian Institution and championed by Charles Lindbergh. Pictured above in 1937 in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, Goddard examines a nose cone and parachute from one of his test rockets. Widely recognized as a gifted experimenter and engineering genius, his rockets were many years ahead of their time. He died in 1945 holding over 200 patents in rocket technology. A liquid fuel rocket constructed on principles developed by Goddard landed humans on the Moon in 1969."