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Robert Goddard's Rhetorical Analysis
Who would ever imagine that the begging of aerospace and the landing on the moon was going to be forty-three years before that the Apollo landed on the moon. What is even more surprising that this was going too occurred in a simple farm. Robert Goddard was a pioneer in Aerospace who was often ridiculed by many editorial and most American scientists. Most off them did not believe on his theories and nobody never took the initiative to do a bigger research in rockets with liquid-propellants. Robert was not ready to stop and this article is an excerpt of what it seems to be part of his journal.
Goddard’s believe and claim that rockets could fly through the vacuum of space. With the years he began proving his theories but was not enough for America.

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