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