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Popular Science Moon Rocket cover from Dec 1931~Prof. Goddard's Turbine Rocket
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Popular Science - December 1931 - Cover by Edgar F. Wittmack of Prof. Robert Goddard's turbine rocket ship for a flight to the moon! Goddard is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket launched in 1926. We would not reach the moon till the 1960s, and its fascinating to see the earliest rocket designed for that moon trip!
There's a ton of fun reading in this issue, with such stories as
Deepest Oil Well Opens New Fields Two Miles Down, How Wireless Grew to World Circling Radio, Microscope Detectives, Why Seaplanes Fly with Bullet Speed, 30,000 Models at Inventors' Show, New Triumphs in Age-Old Quest for Perfect Timepiece, Fabrics Woven 1,600 Years Ago, and How Swift Navy Planes Hit The Spot On Carrier's Deck...