In 1920, the New York Times ridiculed rocket pioneer Robert Goddard in an editorial claiming rockets could never work in the vacuum of space, and 49 years later — the day after Apollo 11 lifted off for the moon — the paper printed a three-sentence correction

A newspaper's casual dismissal of a wild idea about rockets became one of the most humbling corrections in journalism history. The post In 1920, the New York Times ridiculed rocket pioneer Robert Goddard in an editorial claiming rockets cou…

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   In 1920, the New York Times ridiculed rocket pioneer Robert Goddard in an editorial claiming rockets could never work in the vacuum of space, and 49 years later — the day after Apollo 11 lifted off for the moon — the paper printed a three-sentence correction ↗