Robert Goddard, the rocket genius

Goddard, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on the 5th of October 1882, was just an ordinary American boy. But a boy with a dream: to launch a rocket into orbit. His passion grew when his father gave him a telescope and when later, as an adolescent, he read H. G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds". In 1907, as a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he began building rockets fuelled by gunpowder. 


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Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit.