The Man Who Opened the Door to Space


NO MAN made a greater personal contribution to this fearsome and challenging era of missiles than the late Robert H. Goddard, an ailing, publicity-shy physics professor from Worcester, Mass., who sought only peaceful scientific uses for his epochal inventions.
This month, 14 years after his death at 62, the entire U. S. missile industry will honor him at a conference.
"He was just as surely the father of modern rockets as the Wright brothers were of the airplane," Henry F. Guggenheim, noted patron of aeronautical research, has declared.