Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a fortuitous quest for adventure that led Gerald Hastings, 10, to Asa Ward Farm on March 16, 1926, where he witnessed ...

Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust backward fast enough to push itself forward. The person who first turned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The experiment lasted only two and a half seconds, but it ignited a century of space exploration that sent humans to low Earth ...

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, ...

It's been a century since a two-second rocket flight in Massachusetts kicked off the liquid-rocket-fuel revolution. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945), who directed the flight, is widely considered to be ...

Three employees of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. were recipients of the 2010 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science. The award was bestowed upon Matt Greenhouse, Randy Kimble and ...

Robert Goddard's first successful liquid-fueled rocket launch was on March, 16, 1926, in Auburn. Many events are being planned to celebrate the centennial of the launch locally and nationally. The ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This tank was part of a static test ...

Simon Ramo, an engineering pioneer who enabled the United States to become a world leader in space technology and its applications, has been chosen to receive the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy ...

The experiment lasted only two and a half seconds, but it ignited a century of space exploration that sent humans to low Earth orbit and eventually to the moon. On March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard ...

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 ...