Crew members: Albert W. Kisk (far left), Nils Thure Ljungquist (second from right), and Charles W. Mansur (far right).. image from https://pioneersofflight.si.edu/content/harry-guggenheim-goddard-and-lindbergh-rocket-launch-tower

#OTD in 1935
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#HarryGuggenheim, #RobertGoddard & #CharlesLindbergh (2nd, 3rd & 4th from L), with 3 members of Goddard’s crew (👉ALT), at Goddard’s rocket launch tower in #Roswell, #NewMexico, September 23, 1935
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

& J.A. Tomlinson, a longtime #aviation enthusiast - posing here before boarding - who sat on mail bags, wearing their own parachutes & having only a metal cup for a lavatory. The groundwork for this future success was largely laid by #DanielGuggenheims & his son #HarryGuggenheim.