At a
time the rocketry wizards grappling
with
the idea of rockets to travel to stars and beyond
Goddard
you father of modern of rocketry
no
more with us, gone to sleep in your tomb
Come
back Goddard, we need you
Resurrect
yourself like the phoenix bird
Rising
from the ashes, stir, arise from the
Skeletal
remains of you, emerge out of
The tomb
holding you in peaceful sleep
The time
for you to be amongst us
You
deduced Newton’s third law of motion
Works
for the rocket , the thrust generated
By the
hot energy of burning gases
Converted
into mechanical motion by the thrust
generated for lift off, acceleration, coasting into space
You rightly
determined thrust works in vaccum too
Visualizing
the rocket to escape into space
With
right mass, propellants, exhaust velocity
You
found the liquid propellants more efficient
You
created the mathematics for the rocket
The dream
of travel to stars remains a distant dream
the
light years distances proving stumbling blocks
we
need more imaginative propulsions, ionic,
anti-matter
, nuclear propulsion one that propulsion
will
finally take us to stars with imaginative shrinkage of space
So
come back Goddard renew your work
Work
on ingenious propulsions, find a way
To shrink
the light years, your propulsion
Will
work taking us to stars and beyond
Let
there be that history making count down soon
-Mohan Sanjeevan
N.B:- This is not to discredit the present day rocketry scientists, just a tribute to Robert Goddard on the day of his liquid fuel rocket launch completing 90 years and to express the wish for the development of rockets travelling to stars
N.B:- This is not to discredit the present day rocketry scientists, just a tribute to Robert Goddard on the day of his liquid fuel rocket launch completing 90 years and to express the wish for the development of rockets travelling to stars
