http://wyrk.com Today's Country And Your All-Time Favorites Tue, 21 May 2013 16:20:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://wyrk.com/rocketing-into-history/ http://wyrk.com/rocketing-into-history/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:00:06 +0000 Dale Mussen http://wyrk.com/?p=70229 After reading Orson Welles’ science fiction novel “War of the Worlds” he became fascinated with the idea of space travel.  When he was a college physics student he began building rockets powered by gunpowder and eventually as a college professor he mathematically proved it could be possible for rockets to travel in the vacuum of space. 

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