Plus, you really hated this post, so here it comes again:
Seeing as he is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry
Yeah; seems your giant imaginary trash-penises had lots of 'fathers'...
Tsiolkovsky, Goddard, Oberth, Von Braun, Lucifer, Hermes, Thoth...
Not many mothers though; funny that, eh?
Here's another of the cranks: Max Valier.
You may want to check out his Opel Rak.1 'rokkit-kar'.
Had a lot of difficulty even getting moving, apparently...
Funny that, as according to your bullshit man-on-skateboard false analogy it shoulda burst off the line.
But no; it had to be got up to speed BEFORE the rockets were lit.
Why?
Because a rocket exhaust pushes on the atmosphere, which has a low rejection ratio (about 5:1, or 20%).
This makes overcoming Inertia in order to then gain Momentum difficult.
Which is why we see the V2 rocket struggling to take off.
The V2 weighed 14 tons & was at the limit of how large a liquid-fuelled rocket could be made; still is in fact.
So what of the 3,000 ton Saturn V?
Lol no!
All this had been discovered by 1957; rocketry was a bust, as was extreme high-altitude hypersonic flight.
'Space' is No-Man's Land; can't be weaponised, can't be colonised.
Can be Propagandised though; which is what every single one of the Idiots I am 'debating' here is doing...
Filling your heads with Propaganda Bullshit.
Not Science; PROPAGANDA.
Enjoy.
Anyhoo; back to the Propagandists:
Carry On Lying!