Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for September 28, 2015

Too bad he was eclipsed by the Nazi.

There are two wolves fighting in you, the troll and the decent. You feed the troll so that wolf wins. Robert Goddard fed the other wolf and we went to the moon on his shoulders.

Great! I did not know about Robert Goddard.

here is a informative video about Robert H Goddard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nmM3hdI9ZE

When I was kid I read everything I could about rocketry AND Robert Goddard. As an adult in the U.S military, I was extremely fortunate to spend time at a British rocket range off the coast of Scotland (the Isle of Benbecula) firing the old U.S. liquid-fuel Corporal missile out into the cold North Atlantic. Great memories.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNcUdwC0Wp8(If you have a spare 50 seconds.)

I know I was 17…….I watched the Shuttle on TV and that was impressive too. But that Saturn sitting there as big as it was even at a distance. Fired by a single green button on a console.My father helped on the rover part. Design of the rover’s “tires”. How to make it work and such. He worked with the engineer next door who developed it. My father worked for NHTSB of DOT back in the day. His legacy is those numbers and letters on the side of your tires.

Another good reference is “October Sky”—a wonderful movie with Jake Gyllenhaal about Homer Hickam, a young man who bucked the odds in rocketry.

Echo of the first sci-fi film, Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902) Elements of hokey from our modern perspective, but also not that far off from the actual trip.