When Robert Goddard proposed a rocketry a rocket to be launched to the mooonion 1919 the New Yorfringes ridiculed the...

When Robert Goddard proposed a rocketry a rocket to be launched to the mooonion 1919 the New Yorfringes ridiculed the idea claiming that a rocket could not possibly propel itself  ththe acumen vacuum in space. Using Newton's third law explain why goddard was right and New York Times was wrong