Well the Guggenheim family offered him $100,000 worth of funding over four years which isn't to be sniffed at, although the depression did cause that to stop for a couple of years from mid-1932. Buggered if I can find it again, as is the way, but I was reading an online article which was saying that the two year gap caused a slowdown out of proportion to just its length and that if funding had continued he could have been rather further along in his research than just the two years lost. Would have to drag one of the space jockeys in from Eyes or the space thread over in Chat to authoritatively speak to that though.
Allied equivalent to the V-2..
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Was it the Guggenheim money that enabled Goddard to set up the New Mexico test site? New Jersey was not the best venue for that, even in the Pine Barrens.
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I must say that during the war .. there simply wasnt much need for rockets like a v1 or v2... its not that america or the british didnt have any expertise in it.. but the the payloads and effective range just were not that useful..
once you could do the R&D to make long range missiles and have payloads that were really destructive then its a different story for bang for the buck.. precision bombing was much more effective and carpet bombing much more scary then just a few missiles falling from the sky.
Whats gogin to be more effective? 200 bombers or 10 missiles? i'm gogin for the bombers with the ordinence of the time..
once you could do the R&D to make long range missiles and have payloads that were really destructive then its a different story for bang for the buck.. precision bombing was much more effective and carpet bombing much more scary then just a few missiles falling from the sky.
Whats gogin to be more effective? 200 bombers or 10 missiles? i'm gogin for the bombers with the ordinence of the time..
Yeah, it was apparently right after Daniel Guggenheim agreed to advance him the money that the move to New Mexico took place.