While rarely deployed against military targets, long-range missiles are a critical part of the defensive posture for the ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1920, the Eagle reported, “WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 1 ― The first test of working models of rocket apparatus by which Prof. Robert H. Goddard hopes to reach altitudes above the ...

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 ...

This date commemorates the first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert H. Goddard, a Worcester native, whose groundbreaking work laid the foundation for the future of aerospace ...

One such figure was Robert H Goddard, the American engineer who built and launched the world’s first liquid-fuelled rocket. Goddard, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1882, also had a deep ...

To get a rocket off the ground before the age of big-box stores, Robert Goddard had to build his own launch tools. When you hear the name Robert H. Goddard—an American physicist and engineer—what ...

The principles of rocket design have stayed true for nearly a century to those of the American inventor Robert H. Goddard, who launched the world’s first liquid fueled rocket in 1926.

It was endowed by Mrs. Goddard in the 1940s as the ARS Goddard Memorial Award to commemorate her husband, Robert H. Goddard-rocket visionary, pioneer, bold experimentalist, and superb engineer whose ...

Originally conceived by US rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard, this is a gigantic space ark like an enclosed, self-sustaining world complete with its own ecology and capable of fulfilling all the ...