Robert H. Goddard moved to New Mexico around 1930 to build liquid-fuel rockets while the New York Times called him insane. His work in the 1920s-30s outpaced German and Russian rocket programs, and he claimed rockets could reach the Moon long before anyone believed him.
New Mexico, there's all the alien stuff, obviously. And then we ran across this. It's a whole tribute to Robert Goddard, the original rocket pioneer in the United States. I totally forgotten he came from the East Coast to New Mexico around 19— I want to say 1930 to come work on his ideas around liquid-fueled rockets. People thought he was crazy at the time. He said rockets could get to space, rockets could get to the moon. The New York Times wrote a piece, it's very famous, talking about what an insane idea he had. But here we are, Roswell, New Mexico. This is better than the alien stuff, guys. This is the real deal. He was working on these liquid-fueled rockets started kind of like 1920s, if I remember right. And at the same time, the Germans and the Russians were having similar ideas, but Goddard was really pushing forward faster than just about anyone. And here you go, tribute to the Magic Man. Amazing. Thank you, Robert. We salute you.
