100 Years Ago, Robert Goddard Lit the Fuse for the Space Age

<![CDATA[These days, NASA, private spaceflight, and other countries’ space programs make sending human beings and payloads into the atmosphere aboard rockets seem routine. I finished listening to the audiobook of Jeffrey Kluger’s book about the Gemini program Sunday night, and even by the mid ‘60s, rocketry was routine. It’s hard to remember that there was a time when it wasn’t.]]>