Why is Robert Goddard Famous?
He created the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.
The Guggenheim Foundation and Goddard's estate filed suit in 1951 against the U.S. government for prior infringement of Goddard's patents. In 1960, the parties settled the suit, and the U.S. armed forces and NASA paid out an award of $1 million: half of the award settlement went to his wife, Esther. At that time, it was the largest government settlement ever paid in a patent case.
13:404 The settlement amount exceeded the total amount of all the funding that Goddard received for his work, throughout his entire career. Goddard was credited with 214 patents for his work; 131 of these were awarded after his death. One of his contributions was his influence on people who went on to do significant work in the U.S. space program, such as Robert Truax (USN), Milton Rosen (Naval Research Laboratory and NASA), astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell, Gene Kranz (NASA), astrodynamicist Samuel Herrick (UCLA), and General Jimmy Doolittle (USA and NACA).
Some of the awards included: the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution in 1960 and the Congressional Gold Medal in September 16, 1959. The Goddard Space Flight Center, a NASA facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, was established in 1959. The crater Goddard on the Moon is also named in his honor.
The Dr. Robert H. Goddard Collection and the Robert Goddard Exhibition Room are housed in the Archives and Special Collections area of Clark University's Robert H. Goddard High School was completed in 1965 in Roswell, New Mexico, and dedicated by Esther Goddard;citation needed the school's mascot is titled "Rockets".
A small memorial with a statue of Goddard is located at the site where Goddard launched the first liquid-propelled rocket, now the Pakachoag golf course in Auburn, Massachusetts. Release 13 of the Linux distribution Fedora is named after Goddard. The television series Star Trek: The Next Generation had a shuttlecraft named after Goddard.
In Norman, Oklahoma is named in his honor. Goddard Park in Auburn, Massachusetts is named in his honor, the park has two rockets and is adjacent to the Auburn Public Library. Goddard Drive, the main road through Malmstrom Air Force Base, is named in his honor.
"On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have, and a hatchet, started to trim the dead limbs from the cherry tree. It was one of the quiet, colorful afternoons of sheer beauty which we have in October in New England, and as I looked towards the fields at the east, I imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars.
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