{"id":2246,"date":"2013-05-12T04:52:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T04:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2021-10-01T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T21:04:38","slug":"darrell-romick-a-nearly-forgotten-space-visionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2246","title":{"rendered":"Darrell Romick, a nearly forgotten space visionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article describes the visionary rocket and space infrastructure concepts laid out in the 1950s by Goodyear Aircraft engineer Darrell C. Romick, who was eclipsed by Wernher von Braun: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/the-space-city-that-could-have-been-if-not-for-wernher-453679001\">The Space City That Could Have Been, If Not For Wernher Von Braun &#8211;\u00a0 io9.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about Romick:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twcac.org\/onlinehorizon\/canton_rep\/romick.htm\">Darrell Romick: Genuine space pioneer &#8211; CantonRep.com &#8211; Nov.8.02<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/openlibrary.org\/authors\/OL6287193A\/Darrell_C._Romick\">Books by Darrell C. Romick &#8211; Open Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goodyear_Meteor_Junior\">Goodyear Meteor Junior &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/airandspace.si.edu\/collections\/artifact.cfm?id=A19800236000\">Model, Space Shuttle, Goodyear Meteor Jr. 3-Stage Fully Reusable Concept &#8211; Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>[<a href=\"https:\/\/airandspace.si.edu\/collection-archive\/darrell-c-romick-papers\/sova-nasm-2014-0015\">Darrell C. Romick Papers | National Air and Space Museum<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com\/blog\/?p=142\">Meteor Jr. -Aerospace Projects Review Blog &#8211; Nov.13.11<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/airandspace.si.edu\/collection-objects\/model-space-shuttle-goodyear-meteor-jr-3-stage-fully-reusable-concept\/nasm_A19800236000\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ids.si.edu\/ids\/deliveryService?id=NASM-SI-2005-3619-11&amp;max=900\" alt=\"Romick-Goodyear Meteor Junior\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article describes the visionary rocket and space infrastructure concepts laid out in the 1950s by Goodyear Aircraft engineer Darrell C. Romick, who was eclipsed by Wernher von Braun: The Space City That Could Have Been, If Not For Wernher Von Braun &#8211;\u00a0 io9.com More about Romick: Darrell Romick: Genuine space pioneer &#8211; CantonRep.com &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Darrell Romick, a nearly forgotten space visionary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-space-settlement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Ae","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":357,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=357","url_meta":{"origin":2246,"position":0},"title":"Colliers Magazine space series reproduction &#8211; issue number 3","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In case you missed it, the AIAA Houston Section released the\u00a0 Horizons Newsletter issue for Nov\/Dec 2012 (pdf, 49MB) with the third installment of their planned full reproduction of all eight issues of Colliers magazine published between March 1952 and April 1954 with articles on space. 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