“After the rocket quits our air and really starts on its longer journey, its flight would be neither accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left. To claim that it would be is to deny a fundamental law of dynamics, and only Dr. Einstein and his chosen dozen, so few and fit, are licensed to do that. … Of course, Goddard only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.”
New York Times editorial (January 13, 1920)
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