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 ...

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 GigaPoP for Internet2 portal at 474 Main St., Worcester. Compiled by Andi Esposito Sources: “Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age,” by David A. Clary ...

Goddard with his Hoopskirt rocket during a launch attempt in September 1928. The fourth time was the charm for Robert H. Goddard’s “Hoopskirt Rocket,” so named for its resemblance to the ...

Robert H. Goddard's first rocket soared for about 2 1/2 seconds, flew as fast as 60 mph and landed 174 feet from the lift-off pad — a snow-covered patch of dirt in his aunt's backyard.

inventor and the "Father of Modern Rocketry" Robert H. Goddard's first successful liquid-fueled rocket launch in Auburn March 16, 1926. It will be a celebration that could have Worcester and ...

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 ...

He was a sickly boy, often bedridden with tuberculosis, who passed the time with fantastical stories by Jules Verne and ... for Robert Goddard, who would become the founding father of rocket ...

H ’E'S CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF MODERN ROCKET PROPULSION. AND NOW THE CHILDHDOO HOME OF DR. ROBERT GODDARD HAS BEEN BOUGHT WITH PLANS TO TURN IT INTO A MUSEUM, AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER HONORING ONE ...

On March 16, 1926, physicist Robert Hutchings Goddard successfully ... became the V-2 rocket. According to National Air and Space Museum curator emeritus Frank H. Winter, Goddard claimed the ...