English subtitles for clip: File:Robert Goddard footage.ogv

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 Robert Goddard, the American rocket pioneer, Yankee inventor, dreamer, they called him the

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 moon man and laughed, but on his own he went ahead designing, inventing and testing.

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 His first proving grounds were on his Aunt Effie's farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.

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 The neighbors complained.

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 With a grant from Daniel Guggenheim, he moved to New Mexico with his wife Esther, who was

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 also his camera woman.

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 Goddard had invented and launched the world's first liquid propellant rocket in 1926,

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 and in the end he accumulated more than 200 patents for everything from multi-stage rockets to

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 fuel pumps and clustered engines.

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 By the year 1930, his rockets achieved a speed of 500 miles per hour

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  and an altitude of 2,000 feet.

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 This was the year in which the three Apollo astronauts were born.

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 Goddard had a vision of the age of space, but the world was too slow

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  to make it happen before his death.

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 Thank you, Robert Goddard, for your inventiveness and perseverance!