In 1920, the New York Times ridiculed rocket pioneer Robert Goddard in an editorial claiming rockets could never work in the vacuum of space, and 49 years later — the day after Apollo 11 lifted off for the moon — the paper printed a three-sentence correction

In 1920, the New York Times ridiculed rocket pioneer Robert Goddard in an editorial claiming rockets could never work in the vacuum of space, and 49 years later — the day after Apollo 11 lifted off for the moon — the paper printed a three-sentence correction

A newspaper's casual dismissal of a wild idea about rockets became one of the most humbling corrections in journalism history.