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Spaceflight Started 100 Years Ago in a Massachusetts Cabbage Patch (nytimes.com)
4 points by tusslewake 91 days ago
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ahazred8ta 91 days ago
March 1926 to October 1957 -- It only took us 31 years to get to orbit. And 5 more years to get to Venus.
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mmooss 91 days ago
Spoiler: That cabbage patch was on the property of Robert Goddard's aunt.
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