Not incidentally, he was also a founding director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which eventually became the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, or NASA, and thus can rightly be considered the grandfather of the space age.

需要提一句的是，他还是美国航空学顾问委员会的创始理事，该委员会后来成为美国国家航空和航天局，因此他完全有理由可以被认为是空间时代的鼻祖。