[FPSPACE] Image of Robert H. Goddard from National Geographic circa 1940

[Larry Klaes]

National Geographic Magazine's never before published archive
of photographs for January, 2001 includes this image of rocket
pioneer Robert H. Goddard and his assistants carrying a rocket
to the launch pad in January of 1940.  

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/flashback/0101/index.html

None of Goddard's flights were successful during the NGM writer's 
visit, so the article he wrote up never got published in the magazine.

I have to wonder if space travel might have gotten wider public
support and sent a satellite into Earth orbit sooner if the
article had made it into NGM, considering how many people read
it on a global scale?  Just speculating.

Quest magazine published the NGM article (sans photos) in
its Summer, 1996 (Vol. 5, No. 2) issue:

http://www.spacebusiness.com/quest/backissues.html

Larry