On March 16, 1926, Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fuel rocket in a Massachusetts cabbage field. It flew for 2.5 seconds and reached 41 feet. The New York Times had mocked him six years earlier for suggesting rockets could work in space. He died in 1945, believing he'd failed, even though his work had laid the foundation for the entire space age. An exploration of how societies support or fail to support revolutionary research, and the cost of not believing in transformative ideas until after they're proven.