The fourth time was the charm for Robert H. Goddard’s “Hoopskirt Rocket,” so named for its resemblance to the wire-frame skirts that had been popular among fashionable women around the time ...

Dr. Robert H. Goddard first developed the theories needed to power a rocket engine via liquid fuel. This took some time, and once he moved from theory to practical application, things changed.

Goddard went on to work with the US military on rocket-assisted takeoff systems for aircraft. Robert H Goddard in his rocket workshop in Roswell, New Mexico, US in the late 1930s [Smithsonian’s ...

Esteemed scientist Robert H. Goddard, a Worcester native, ignited a liquid-based rocket from what is now a golf course in Auburn on March 16, 1926.

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.

He was awarded the Robert H. Goddard award for exceptional achievement in the development of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) for the Hubble Space Telescope, installed in 2009 on Hubble during servicing ...

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. —Robert H. Goddard “Why do you ask us about rockets?” said a captured ...

There were space sceptics before there were even astronauts. In January 1920, the New York Times ridiculed the pioneer rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard for not “realising” that rockets would have ...