Wernher von Braun:
Another of Edgar Mitchell's Sources
for the Reality of UFOs
by Giuliano Marinkovic 
 Robert Goddard |
Also, another of Mitchell's interesting references was about rocket scientist
Robert Goddard. On Larry King's show July 4, Mitchell states that
the farm of Robert Goddard, the father of American rocketry,
was right down the road from ours (near Roswell). "And I walked
past his home every day going there. So I feel fairly well-informed
on all of this", Mitchell says.
Altough, Goddard died in 1945. there is a interesting connection
between Wernher von Braun and Goddard in this Wikipedia entry: "With new financial backing, Goddard eventually relocated to Roswell,
New Mexico in 1930, where he worked in near isolation and secrecy for
a dozen years". Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goddard
In Nazi Germany, however, Wernher von Braun took Goddard's plans from
various journals and incorporated them into building the early 1930s
A-1 and A2 prototypes of the Aggregate series that later, designated
A4 or V-2, constantly struck at Europe in the last two years of World War
II.
In 1963, von Braun, reflecting on the history of rocketry, said of
Goddard: "His rockets ... may have been rather crude by present-day
standards, but they blazed the trail and incorporated many features
used in our most modern rockets and space vehicles".
My previous story on Mitchell and compilation of interviews:
http://tinyurl.com/6xcxox
Giuliano Marinkovic
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