"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

NGC 7538

170 minutes combined LRGB image thru Astro-Tech 111EDT L-3, R-5, G-4, B-5 10 minute exposures combined in MaximDL6 color adjusted in PS6; 881 light years from Earth in Cassiopeia. Astro-Tech 111edt cf, guided with Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2, imaged with SXVR-H9, Starlight Xpress Mini Wheel. Manchester, New Jersey

NGC 7538