Dr. Robert H. Goddard

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Dr. Robert H. Goddard
(1882-1945)
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• Getting Started
• Starts to think about rockets at a young age
• Ph.D. from Clark University
• Continues studies at Princeton
• Lack of funds
• Published ideas of sending rocket to moon

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• Getting Serious
• 1916 proves rocket to moon
• Publishes ideas in newspapers
• Proposes plan to build rocket
• Funded by Smithsonian

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• The Build
• 1922 starts to build rocket
• Uses steel nozzle
• First rocket motor by fuel
• Finished 3 meters. Motor 2 feet

• The Flight
• Loses fuel quickly
• 184 feet into air
• Top speed 60mph

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• Inventions
• Bazooka
• Steel-tipped nozzle for rocket
• Liquid fuel rocket motor
• Energy to weight ratio of rocket fuel
• Smokeless gunpowder

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