" For 10 points, identify the namesake of NASA's Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the father of rocketry.
This man received the first patent for the use of a vacuum tube to amplify a signal, and his use of de Laval nozzles greatly assisted this man in his primary research. The German Hermann Oberth developed several of his theories independent of this man. The New York Times published a short 1969 piece apologizing for a 1920 editorial (+) ridiculing this man's theory that his inventions could function in a vacuum. This man demonstrated the use of a bazooka two days before the end of World War I. This man wrote the 1920 publication "A Method of Reaching Extreme (*) Altitudes." For 10 points, identify the namesake of NASA's Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the father of rocketry.
This man received the first patent for the use of a vacuum tube to amplify a signal, and his use of de Laval nozzles greatly assisted this man in his primary research.
Robert {Goddard}