Robert H. Goddard, the American father of modern rocketry, built and tested the world's first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926. His achievement is considered as significant as the Wright Brothers' first ...

Prior to Goddard’s experimentation ... reaching outer space were ridiculed during his lifetime. But the first liquid-fueled rocket flight was as significant to space exploration as the Wright ...

Modern rockets, which use a liquid or solid fuel, didn't come into being until a scientist named Dr. Robert H. Goddard developed and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16 ...

Robert Goddard around 1936, when he first published the results of his pioneering liquid-fuel rocket experiments. Americans are justifiably proud of Robert H. Goddard, the Massachusetts professor ...

Goddard's first successful liquid-fueled rocket launch in Auburn March 16, 1926. It will be a celebration that could have Worcester and Auburn on a world stage two years from now. At a well ...

NOT AT NASA, NOT AT A SECRET BASE SOMEWHERE, BUT ON THE NINTH FAIRWAY, ON A GOLF COURSE IN AUBURN, MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE ROBERT GODDARD LAUNCHED THE FIRST LIQUID FUELED ROCKET. HE IS OFTEN REFERRED ...

It was there, on March 16, 1926, that Robert Goddard carried out the first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket: a 10 foot cylinder that flew for just two and half seconds to an altitude of ...

By 1914, Goddard had received two patents – both titled “Rocket Apparatus” – to show for his work. His first, which he received on July 7, 1914, described the multi-stage rocket concept ...

He claimed to be Hitler’s leading rocket scientist, the man who invented the V-2, the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. A test-flight of the pioneering V2 space program in ...