Goddard's 1930 Manned Moonship

On Sep 3, 6:59*am, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 9/2/2010 2:52 PM, wrote:

It would make on very wild looking model, I'll say that for it. :-)

The mind boggles at the thought of Goddard with an unlimited budget.

Those first ballistic missiles might have been traveling towards the
Nazis from Britain rather than the other way around.
He would have been better funded if he had been more open with the press
about what he was doing; some of those later rocket experiments would
have made great newsreel material.

Pat

Hearst's Metrotone News list newsreels under Robert Hutchings Goddard
1882 - 1945. They're not available on line. Selznick News and
Vitagraph, were both active in the 1920s and 30s the period where
Goddard through Lindbergh's influence got Guggenheim (the one the
museum is named after) to give him $100,000 per year. Since
Guggenheim lived in NYC, and since Selznick and Vitagraph lived in
NYC, they both went down and filmed Goddard's efforts in New Mexico.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcGaMEXDWVk
http://www.5min.com/Video/Robert-God...aphy-119827278

These biographies made in the 60s and 70s were taken from these
newsreels.