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rocket launches may seem commonplace

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today

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in 2018 there was an average of more

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but in the past the idea of sending

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rockets into space was purely science

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it wasn't until the early 20th century

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when a man named robert goddard tried to

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convince the world that space travel

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decades before the space age began he

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envisioned using rockets to send science

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experiments into the upper atmosphere

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beyond the heights attainable by weather

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balloons at the time

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he even imagined and calculated in

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detail what it would take to send a

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rocket carrying a massive flash powder

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to the surface of the moon

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the powder he believed could be ignited

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on the surface and would be visible from

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earth

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the public caught wind of goddard's wild

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ideas and it became the topic of

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national conversation and press

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a lot of it negative

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goddard's replied

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every vision is a joke until the first

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man accomplishes it

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once realized it becomes commonplace

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goddard persisted with his dream

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he went on to build and launch the

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world's first liquid field rocket the

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basic design of which is still used to

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in july 1969 50 years after goddard

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first proposed sending a rocket to the

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moon

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apollo 11 launched on the six and a half

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million pound saturn v rocket

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among the three astronauts on board was

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buzz aldrin

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and on his journey to the moon he

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carried with him a miniature version of

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thankfully goddard was not forgotten by

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history

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his name lives on to this day

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on may 1st 1959

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nasa dedicated its first space flight

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complex in his honor as the goddard

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space flight center

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60 years later the center continues to

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fulfill his vision by building

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spacecraft instruments and new

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technology to study earth the sun our