What about Robert Goddard?

Never heard of him? He was the first person to launch a rocket using liquid fuel! Robert Hutchings Goddard was born on October 5, 1882, and died on August 10, 1945. I came across him on a very strange envelope from the United States. I had never heard of him either, so you try to find out a bit more. The airmail stamp was issued on October 5, 1964. This is visible in the postmark. The catalogue also provided few clues, other than that, next to the portrait of Goddard strip card you can also book a Atlas rocket was depicted and the Cape Kennedy launch installation. The place name appears on the stamp. Roswell in the state of New Mexico. Did that place have anything to do with Goddard? Did it have anything to do with UFOs? No, that was impossible, because that was from before that time. In Roswell, Goddard conducted many tests with his rockets. He received a patent for his invention of the multi-stage rocket in 1914. During his lifetime, Goddard was barely recognized for his research and experiments. But after his death, he was called the 'father of the modern rocket'. He was one of the founders of the space travel. Then there is something else strange about the envelope, because a German stamp has also been affixed to it. This stamp had nothing to do with Dr. Goddard, but the German postmark did. This postmark, bearing the date September 4, 1969—applied to the envelope five years later—was dedicated to the memorial exhibition organized in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The postmark features a portrait of Dr. Goddard. It is truly fascinating that a small envelope can offer so much information by looking beyond what is visible on it. In this way, a seemingly unimportant stamp really comes to life.