The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts.

In 1929, Popular Mechanics covered the explosive work of Robert Goddard. His liquid propellant-fueled rocket, the first of its kind, carved a path to the stars.

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 ...

90 years ago this week, on March 16, 1926, rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. See its legacy.

Forty years before John F. Kennedy's famous speech, physicist Robert Goddard had thoughts of sending a rocket to the moon.

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) ...

As we approach July’s 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing, this week marks the commemoration of a key moment in history that may have helped Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael ...

As we approach July’s 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing, this week marks the commemoration of a key moment in history that may have helped Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael ...