New York Times retracted slur on Robert Goddard's rocket science--24 years later


	New York Times retracted slur on Robert Goddard's rocket science--24 years later

kelvin273

7-21-2009 2:27 AM

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science, space, moon, new york times, robert goddard, rocket science

kelvin273 says:

It's kind of funny that they didn't do the retraction until after the first moon rocket launched. Especially since it wasn't the first rocket to work in space by a long shot.

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