The centennial to celebrate 100 years since Worcester physicist, engineer, teacher, inventor and the "Father of Modern ...

Ninety years ago today, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) launched the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket. His rickety contraption, with its combustion chamber and nozzle on top, ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This device is the oldest surviving liquid-propellant rocket in the world. It was designed and built by U.S. rocket ...

WBJ to launch INNOVATORS publication in honor of Robert Goddard's rocket launch anniversary, and solicits ideas from readers. Robert Goddard and his liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket at what is now the ...

The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts. Colleen Anderson Robert Goddard, an American physicist and inventor, built many of his early rockets at his workshop in Roswell, New Mexico.