Atomic Energy: The Rosetta Stone Of Space Flight
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J. A. Dewar. (1994), JBIS, 47, pp.199-206
Refcode: 1994.47.199
Abstract:
Robert Goddard was the first in 1906 to relate atomic energy and space flight, but other pioneering rocket scientists followed: Robert Esnault-Pelterie in 1912; K.E. Tsilokovsky in 1913; General Gaeteno Arturo Crocco in 1923; Eugen Sanger in 1933; Philip Cleator in 1936. They were from the United States, France, the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany and England, respectively, and believed atomic energy was the key to space travel. It was the Rosetta Stone of energy sources that could unlock a thousand years of space exploration much in the same way that this inscribed tablet, found in Egypt in 1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops, allowed archaeologists to decipher a thousand years of Egyptian civilisation.
