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NY Times attempts to school Robert Goddard on rocketry. They won't work in space because there is no air to push against. Same as it ever was. Had to wait a few years before their commie foreign correspondent Walter Duranty won a Pulitizer lying about the Soviet Union starving out the Ukraine. NY Times and Tugtards continue to play the useful idiots.

And on January 13, 1920, the New York Times published an editorial insisting that a rocket couldn't possibly work in space:

"That professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react -- to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
Goddard pushed back against the wave of criticism in a Scientific American article later that year, but Newton's Third Law doesn't apply to public relations, and his response was mostly drowned out by the attacks. He retreated from the public eye, and from most interaction with other scientists, but continued his research.
 
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