Author: Clary, David A.
Title: Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age.
Description: New York Hyperion, 2003. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos (including frontispiece), top corner rear cover little creased, small mark fore-edge, minor edgewear. 324 pp. The life and work of the troubled, solitary genius Robert H. Goddard, who was the American father of rocketry and space flight / travel, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the sound barrier. He was supported by Charles Lindbergh and Harry Guggenheim, when he devised the methods that carried men to the moon. His inventions are used today to fly rockets and jet planes. ISBN: 0786887052

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