The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts.

In 1929, Goddard launched the first rocket with a payload – a camera and a barometer. In 1930, Goddard moved to New Mexico to continue his research in private.

Robert H. Goddard, the American father of modern rocketry, built and tested the world's first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is named in his honor.

2001-03-18 04:00:00 PDT Worcester, Mass.-- Seventy-five years ago, on a snow-covered field of Effie Ward's farm in the suburbs of Worcester, Mass., the space age began. There were no big headlines ...

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

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 ...

Robert Goddard, an American physicist and inventor, built many of his early rockets at his workshop in Roswell, New Mexico. Smithsonian/National Air and Space Museum (NASM 2003-4818) ...