it went on to make a rather peculiar claim: Here and there throughout the world many men have been thinking about rockets for some time. . . . I recall that in 1930 L. Ron Hubbard, a writer and engineer, developed and tested—but without fanfare—a rocket motor considerably superior to the V-2 instrument of propulsion and rather less complicated. Campbell—who failed to question the idea that Hubbard had been conducting rocket research at nineteen—provided
