Foreseeing a bright, if distant, future
Hey, where’s this guy when we need him? Dr. Robert H. Goddard was a famous rocket scientist (the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is named in his honor), but he was talking about solar-powered cars and planes in this United Press article that ran in the New Era on Oct. 2, 1929.
Apparently, he had much better luck with the rocket science. A Goddard biography on the NASA Web site speaks at length of his achievements in that field. It makes no mention of the solar-powered cars and planes…can someone please dig out, and dust off, these plans?
