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Originally Posted by musicman691

Actually, no. While it was Von Braun that came over to escape Hitler and straightened things out Goddard was doing rockets long before that. But if you think about it the first actual rocketeers were the Chinese. Without them Goddard, Von Braun and others wouldn't have done what they did.

Indeed. I was crediting that first liquid fuel rocket by Goddard that later informed Von Brauns work but the Chinese were indeed the first with solid propellant rockets used for fireworks displays.

Nice break from bashing AVID.....