Goddard ancestry (was: Lunar elevators)

--- In spacesettlers, "Michael Capriola" wrote:

> "Andrew Goddard" wrote, in response to,

>>> Umm, stupid question...you're not related to Robert H.??

>> He's the American-born liquid-fuelled rocket pioneer. I'm in the UK
>> and related to a few ne'er-do-wells who were transported in the
>> 1800s to the Caribbean for sheep stealing.

> The House of Windsor can trace its ancestry back to Rolf the
> Ganger, a Norse pirate, who stole a lot more than sheep. That's
> what separates the upper and lower classes -- the amount one steals.

>> I'm just known for researches on Medieval underwear.

> Just call him "Happosai."

"Yonda ka no, Shampoo-chan?"

> Anyway, in my "Cherry Moon: Adventures on New Mars" comic strip
> (which appeared in the Dallas Brawl fanzine), three locales that
> are mentioned are Port Heinlein, Burroughs City and Goddard City. I
> must have named the third one after you, then? ;)

Well, there won't be any named after me, but then again, anybody who
goes to Mars (or the Moon, or a Habitat) in the early days would be a
xenophile, by definition.