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| | Space history: Aviation, rocketry and pre-manned spaceflight history. |
 | | This is not a detailed history of all aviation or rocketry but only those events that led mankind toward spaceflight. |
 | | These three "fathers of modern rocketry" were Dr. Robert H. Goddard, recognized as the most important figure in American rocket history, Hermann Oberth, a Rumanian born Physicist working in Germany, and Kanstantin Tsiolkovsky, an obscure Russian school teacher and mathematician. |
 | | Goddard began his experiments in rocketry while studying for his doctorate at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and, on May 26, 1919, wrote a progress report to the Smithsonian Institution entitled "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes." It was published by the Smithsonian in January of 1920. |
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