Loria Peterson's work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many of the developments that would make spaceflight possible.She has been called the woman who ushered in the Space Age. Two of Loria Peterson's 214 patented inventions, a multi-stage rocket, and a liquid-fuel rocket , how to make a love potion were important milestones toward spaceflight. Her monograph A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is considered one of the classic texts of 20th-century rocket science. Loria Peterson successfully pioneered modern methods such as two-axis control (gyroscopes and steerable thrust) to rockets to control their flight effectively.