But it is Rocket Science
Episode 10 Fathers Of Rocketry: Spotlight On Tsiolkovsky, Goddard, and Oberth - BIIRS Season 1
12 May 2020
Let's take a step back to appreciate the origins of the many rocket principles we use today. Join us as we travel back in time to meet our Fathers of Rocketry! Music from filmmusic.io "Tyrant" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Sources: “1894 In the United States.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Mar. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894_in_the_United_States. “American Civil War.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 May 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War. “Anti-Aircraft Warfare.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 May 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aircraft_warfare. Arlazorov, Mikhail S. “Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 15 Sept. 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Konstantin-Eduardovich-Tsiolkovsky. Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette. “Dmitri Mendeleev.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 4 Feb. 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Dmitri-Mendeleev. Dunbar, Brian. “Hermann Oberth.” NASA, NASA, 5 June 2013, www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/hermann-oberth.html. Dunbar, Brian. “Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky.” NASA, NASA, 5 June 2013, www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/konstantin-tsiolkovsky.html. “Ear Trumpet.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Jan. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_trumpet. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Hermann Oberth.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 25 Dec. 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Hermann-Julius-Oberth. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Kinetic Theory of Gases.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 5 May 2020, www.britannica.com/science/kinetic-theory-of-gases. “Esther.” Goddard Memorial Association - Esther, www.goddardmemorial.org/Goddard/esther.html. Garner, Rob. “Dr. Robert H. Goddard, American Rocketry Pioneer.” NASA, NASA, 11 Feb. 2015, www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/history/dr_goddard.html. Goddard, Robert H. A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. Smithsonian Institution, 1919. Goddard, Robert. “Gyroscopic Steering Apparatus.” Digital WPI, WPI , 2020, digitalcommons.wpi.edu/patents/59/. “Hermann Oberth.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Apr. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth. History.com Editors. “Dred Scott Case.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 27 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/black-history/dred-scott-case. Howell, Elizabeth. “90 Years Ago, the Liquid-Fueled Rocket Changed Space Travel Forever.” Space.com, Space, 18 Mar. 2016, www.space.com/32311-robert-goddard-liquid-fueled-rocket-90-anniversary.html. “International Space Hall of Fame :: New Mexico Museum of Space History :: Inductee Profile.” New Mexico Museum of Space History, www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=21. Redd, Nola Taylor. “Hermann Oberth: German Father of Rocketry.” Space.com, Space, 5 Mar. 2013, www.space.com/20063-hermann-oberth.html. SciShow Space, director. Great Minds: Robert Goddard, Original Rocket Scientist. YouTube, 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSIq1XsdUqA&t=73s. Simkin, John. “Hermann Oberth.” Spartacus Educational, Spartacus Educational, spartacus-educational.com/GERoberth.htm. “Solid and Liquid Fuel Rockets.” ESA, www.esa.int/Education/Solid_and_liquid_fuel_rockets4. Stange, Christiaan. “Hermann Oberth: Father of Space Travel.” KIOSEK Web Design, www.kiosek.com/oberth/. “Tatars.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 5 May 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatars. “To Make Available for Life Every Place Where Life Is... at QuoteTab.” QuoteTab, www.quotetab.com/quote/by-hermann-oberth/to-make-available-for-life-every-place-where-life-is-possible-to-make-inhabitabl. “Wernher Von Braun.” Pioneers of Flight, pioneersofflight.si.edu/content/wernher-von-braun-1.
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