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Uncommon card · Science
Robert H. Goddard, an Uncommon card
Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 98
- Power
- 187
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Ranked #266 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- By 1915 his pioneering work had dramatically improved the efficiency of the solid-fueled rocket, signaling the era of the modern rocket and innovation.
- He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km and speeds as fast as 885 km/h.
- Goddard's work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many of the developments that would make spaceflight possible.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Robert H. Goddard article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 89 and blocks with 98: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Robert H. Goddard (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
