“When I speak at schools, I make a point of telling the students how much their lives are influenced by Goddard,” she says. “Along with his more than two hundred patents, you have all of the spin-offs from the space program.” These include everything from conveniences like scratch-resistant lenses, the DustBuster, and Tempur-Pedic foam mattresses, to more critical innovations such as GPS, self-righting life rafts, and flame-retardant fabrics.
