"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"Correction: It is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum. The 'Times' regrets the error."
NY Times, July 1969.

— New York Times

What does the White House know about life on Mars that you don't?

By kuky at Mon, 08/04/2008 - 4:19pm

Is NASA telling the White House something about life on Mars that it hasn't told anyone else?

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