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Creating near-term lunar settlements: lessons from space history 

Written by  James R. Wertz Wednesday, 01 April 2026 12:00
NASA lunar base

March 16, 2026, was the 100th anniversary of Robert Goddard’s first flight of a liquid fueled rocket.

It reached an altitude of 41 feet. 31 years later, in 1957, Sputnik began a lonely beep as the first satellite in orbit. In 1969, 12 years after Sputnik and 43 years after Goddard’s first flight, Neil Armstrong […]

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