Transport: Lost in Space

Last week the world's most celebrated aviator delivered himself on the subject which most aviators consider the world's greatest joke. Wrote Charles Augustus Lindbergh in a letter which was read aloud by Clark University's President Wallace Walter Atwood at graduation ceremonies in Worcester, Mass.: "Clark University is taking part in a project which may have far-reaching effects on the future of civilization. For many years a member of the staff, Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard, has been experimenting with rockets. . . .

"The rocket is now in that most interesting period of...

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