THINKING ABOUT EXPERIMENTING WITH ROCKET POWER ? Robert Goddard (he invented the first liquid-propellant rocket, in 1926) was an "amateur" rocket scientist. So was Wernher von Braun (he designed...
Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration during the period between the 1930s and the 1970s. As a youth he became enamored with the...