Goddard's 80th Anniversary and.... nothing?

Calling around to several municipal / educational centers in Worcester
and Auburn MA to see if there's any events planned for the 80th
anniversary of Robert Goddard's 16 March first rocket launch.

*Nothing*

City of Worcester, Clark University, WPI, Auburn - - all missed the
boat on this year. There's supposed to be a memorial in May for a new
plaque at the park in Auburn, but tomorrow's just another day.

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, TVDad Jim wrote:

Calling around to several municipal / educational centers in Worcester
and Auburn MA to see if there's any events planned for the 80th
anniversary of Robert Goddard's 16 March first rocket launch.

*Nothing*

City of Worcester, Clark University, WPI, Auburn - - all missed the
boat on this year. There's supposed to be a memorial in May for a new
plaque at the park in Auburn, but tomorrow's just another day.

Wasn't there a big model rocketry conference in Wisconsin this week?

Google says NARCON 2006 was in Kenosha last weekend. I would maybe expect
those guys to celebrate somehow.

Especially as Sheboygan is angling to be the spaceflight capital of the
Great Lakes:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0601290436jan29,1,5656741.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

I guess *Amazing Stories* turns 80 next month as well. This marked the
beginning of "science fiction" as a marketing genre, though the name
wouldn't be coined for a few years yet. Gernsback called his magazine
"scientifiction" at first.

--
Bill Higgins || "[Theatregoers], if they did not happen to like
Fermi || the production, had either to sit all through it
National || or else go home. They probably would have
Accelerator || rejoiced at the ease of our Tele-Theaters, where
Laboratory || we can switch from one play to another in five
Internet: || seconds, until we find the one that suits us
|| best."
|| --Hugo Gernsback predicts Channel-Surfing
|| in *Ralph 124C41+* (1912)

TVDad Jim wrote:
Calling around to several municipal / educational centers in Worcester
and Auburn MA to see if there's any events planned for the 80th
anniversary of Robert Goddard's 16 March first rocket launch.

*Nothing*

City of Worcester, Clark University, WPI, Auburn - - all missed the
boat on this year. There's supposed to be a memorial in May for a new
plaque at the park in Auburn, but tomorrow's just another day.

No info on events planned for the 80th anniversary, but.......

Here are links to Dr. Robert Goddard's rocket patents:
Click on link below then click on "Images".


"Rocket Apparatus" granted July 14, 1914 - Patent # 1,103,503
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...&RS=PN/1103503

"Rocket Apparatus" granted August 15, 1916 - Patent # 1,194,496
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...&RS=PN/1194496

"Rocket Apparatus" granted December 5, 1916 - Patent # 1,206,837
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...&RS=PN/1206837



If you need a Tiff image viewer installed to view Patents, go to this
link:
http://www.alternatiff.com/


-Rusty

In article .com,
"TVDad Jim" wrote:

Calling around to several municipal / educational centers in Worcester
and Auburn MA to see if there's any events planned for the 80th
anniversary of Robert Goddard's 16 March first rocket launch.

*Nothing*

City of Worcester, Clark University, WPI, Auburn - - all missed the
boat on this year. There's supposed to be a memorial in May for a new
plaque at the park in Auburn, but tomorrow's just another day.

Well, he was pretty much a ******.

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, TVDad Jim wrote:

Calling around to several municipal / educational centers in Worcester
and Auburn MA to see if there's any events planned for the 80th
anniversary of Robert Goddard's 16 March first rocket launch.

*Nothing*

City of Worcester, Clark University, WPI, Auburn - - all missed the
boat on this year. There's supposed to be a memorial in May for a new
plaque at the park in Auburn, but tomorrow's just another day.

Sounds familiar:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.history/msg/8503bac2e6171a74?dmode=source&hl=en

--
"You are demonstrating the height of egotism | Bill Higgins
and intellectual incompetence by presuming | Fermilab
that you are someone whose opinion in this matter | Internet:
is of import." |
--Gharlane of Eddore (1947-2001) |

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Calling around to several municipal / educational centers in Worcester
and Auburn MA to see if there's any events planned for the 80th
anniversary of Robert Goddard's 16 March first rocket launch.

*Nothing*

City of Worcester, Clark University, WPI, Auburn - - all missed the
boat on this year. There's supposed to be a memorial in May for a new
plaque at the park in Auburn, but tomorrow's just another day.



They guy was so freaking paranoid and money hungry he ran off to the
desert to do his research. He was not a team player. It was all me, me,
me, patent, patent, patent, money, money, money. Did he actually contribute
anything important to the national U.S. space/rocket programs? He kept his
toys to himself unless they were bought from him.