When Robert Goddard thought he'd figured out how to get humans into space in 1920, the press called his ideas "absurd". Now, his ideas about rocket propulsion will help us create a petrol station ...

if i talked to anybody under 40, most of them don’t know who robert goddard is. so we need to get that word out. the future goddard’s both men say his legacy extends far beyond the skies.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Dr. Robert Goddard, a physics professor in Massachusetts, had a vision, one might even say an obsession. Inspired by reading books by H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, Goddard ...

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 ...