In addition to rockets, were there any other modes of transportation that interested Dr. Goddard?
Dr. Goddard also considered what we call magnetic levitation systems, which is also called maglev. First, he wrote an essay about such vehicles for a college assignment. Later, Goddard was awarded patent #2,488,287, which is called “Apparatus for Vacuum Tube Transportation” and #2,511,979, which is “Vacuum Tube Transportation Systems.” Basically, he envisioned a maglev being used within a vacuum tube. He believed that this would allow the vehicle to move as fast as the humans in it could physically endure.
