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NASM.1997.0040

Creator

Lehman, Milton

Date

1889-[ca. 1960s]

Provenance

Mildred Lehman, gift, 1997, 1997-0040, unknown

Extent

1.35 Cubic feet ((3 legal document boxes))

Restrictions

No restrictions on access

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Manuscripts

Publications

Correspondence

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of copies of material gathered or written by Milton Lehman for his authorized biography of Robert H. Goddard, This High Man, 1963. The collection contains the following: a typed transcript of Goddard's diary, 1898-1930; a typed transcript of Goddard's "Red Idea Notebooks" (1-10) covering the years 1924-1942; Goddard's patents and patent correspondence between Goddard and Charles T. Hawley, 1926-1945; and typed interview notes with Goddard's contemporaries, including: Hermann Oberth, Hugo Gernsback, G.R. Gladding, L.A. Gore, Charles T. Hawley, Andrew G. Haley, George Bode, Rear Admiral Calvin C. Bolster, Homer A. Boushey, Col. Henry Breckenridge, Dr. William Cole, Richard B. Dow, Rear Admiral Delmer Fahrney, Harry Guggenheim, Al Campbell, Clarence Hickman, Charles Lindbergh, Edward Pendry, and Inez Powers.

Genre/Form

Manuscripts

Publications

Correspondence

Rights

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Names

Goddard, Robert Hutchings, 1882-1945

Guggenheim, Harry Frank, 1890-1971

Haley, Andrew Gallagher, 1944-1966

Hawley, Charles T.

Lehman, Milton

Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

Oberth, Hermann, 1894-1989

Topics Astronautics
Rockets (Aeronautics)
Rocketry

Archival Repository

National Air and Space Museum Archives