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- From: m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Debate question of the day!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.191622.11173@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:16:22 GMT
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- David E. Brahm writes:
- > There's a story that a major newspaper once printed an editorial
- > ridiculing Goddard for not understanding that..., his rockets could
- > never work in space [without air to push against].
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- It was the New York Times, and in the 1970's during the Apollo
- flights, they printed a tongue-in-cheek retraction admitting
- they were wrong.
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