rocketry

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Mr. Ariosto also conducts informative interviews with Yao Song, a Chinese space entrepreneur, and Xue Suijian, a former high-ranking space official in the Chinese government, that provide glimpses into the opaque world of Chinese rocketry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

He did everything he could to advertise his love of rocketry.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

The launch was the rocketry equivalent of hiring a city bus to take two people to the movies.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2023

Not just a rocketry pioneer, but an all-American hero, a man who, perhaps more than any other figure, was seen as enabling the nation’s conquest of space.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2023

In the United States the great pioneer of rocketry was Robert Hutchings Goddard, who was born in Massachusetts in 1882—the same year my dad was bom.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins