writers before the technology wasn't there it was very imaginative and by that time thanks to robert goddard working for the germans and for the american industry we reached the point we could technologically do that. there was this stuff about how that's not paul says we can go to the moon, ha ha. the fuel rocket ride there was launched in 1926 and march i believe and there were times like it wen this when only 44 ft a crackpot. by the way, when apollo was going to the moon they published an apology around the goddard space flight center. there was a vision and he goes at the time of americans thinking of doing great things. we had the human capital at that time as well and people are thinking of an innovative way and they were not all harvard graduates. we had a free open society i was mentioning that to some of you earlier we had a situation we look at how nasa ran at the time and they would question how do you let me do this. no one had ever done this before so do you have one big rockets that goes to the moon or a whole idea in the lunar orbit and putting the lamb out there, separate lu

paperclip and we moved him to texas and el paso because roswell new mexico was the only rocketeer of robert goddard was doing tests in roswell in the white sands ground so than in those refugee prisoners practicing the rockets and by 1950 get to huntsville alabama that becomes rocket city usa and he is the one that builds a saturn and that's what takes us to the moon when kennedy met him in 1953 in new york city they were judges four times man of the year the reason he was picked he was writing articles about going to the moon in mars there wasn't much animus against germans as you would have thought. i would've thought there would have been disney put him on his tv shows so he came a celebrity. and kennedy just won the senate seat 1952 so they should chose the west german chancellor as the man of the year but it tells you at that moment in time we were trying to braying west germany into nato and as our ally so he wasn't stigmatized and i did not like him a lot because al - - because he was the allied supreme commander so maybe with those vanguard rockets but they were defective so kennedy is a be

and then they came along making it viable but spaceoc and rockets started with robert goddard and his work was funded in the thirties but after world war two for political reasons civilian operations or civilian space in military became part of the government sector. and that was one of the problems and also by the way one of them was that providers said in the 19 fifties and sixties we want to get involved to develop our own rockets but sorry that's the government's purview and in the early eighties the thnestoga rocket was a private rocket and they went through hell to get approval for a launch. that led to reforms later. so that was a different story through civil aviation. but we fortunately have had a state entrepreneurial freedom revolution over the last decade or two with a lot of deregulation and private prizes and deregulation by the way it was created earlier as it was moved to the faa the office of commercial space transportation. the idea of one-stop shopping if you are private companies of going to the state department with international treaties or spaceon treaty, and th

by that time, thanks to robert goddard - - was working for the germans. we reached the point where we could technologically to that. the new york times published this stuff about how this not ball - - nutball says we can go to the moon. ha ha. in march i believe, then your time writes, ha ha, it only went 44 feet. what a crackpot. by the way, when apollo is going to the moon, they actually published an apology. i posted it at the goddard space center. it was kind of cool. anyway, there was an achievement ethos at the time of americans thinking of doing great things. we have the human capital at that time as well. people were thinking and innovative way. by the way, they were in all harvard graduates. they were people from more regional schools who loved engineering. who loved tech and wanted to do something great and signed off. we had a free, open society. i was mentioning that to some of you earlier. that we had a situation where, if you looked at how nasa ran at the time, basically - - you know, the folks involved in this would question. they would say

space and rocket support started private with robert daughter, charles lindbergh was one of the people who funded a lot of goddard's later work in the 1930s but after world war ii for all number of political reasons, civilian operation, so-called civilian space and military became part ofthe government sector . and that was of course one of the problems and also by the way one of the problems was when private providers saidin the 1950s and 60s , we want to get involved in trying to develop our own rockets, sorry, that's the government's purview and in the early 80s for example, still go, the space services rocket was a private rocket and they went through hell trying to get approval for a launch . and it led to reforms a little bit later which i'll talk about in a minute so that was a different story for civil aviation comparedto rockets in space . but we have fortunately had a space entrepreneurial freedom revolution in the last decade or two. you have a lot of deregulation. you had private prizes. the regulation by the way, this was created earlier on that it was in the 90s that it got moved to the faa, created o