Robert Goddard around 1936, when he first published the results of his pioneering liquid-fuel rocket experiments. Americans are justifiably proud of Robert H. Goddard, the Massachusetts professor ...

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.

Robert H. Goddard's first rocket soared for about 2 1/2 seconds, flew as fast as 60 mph and landed 174 feet from the lift-off pad — a snow-covered patch of dirt in his aunt's backyard.

Born Oct. 5, 1882, at 1 Tallawanda Drive, Worcester; died Aug. 10, 1945, at age 62 in Baltimore, of throat cancer. Inventor of modern rocketry. Mr. Goddard developed and launched the world’s ...

Dr. Robert H. Goddard first developed the theories needed to power a rocket engine via liquid fuel. This took some time, and once he moved from theory to practical application, things changed.

Ninety years ago today, on March 28, 1935, Robert H. Goddard launched the first gyroscopically-stabilized liquid-fueled rocket, the A-5, in Roswell, New Mexico. This groundbreaking event marked ...

Robert Goddard’s 1928 Hoopskirt Rocket Was a (Very) Small Step to the Moon A three-second flight to 204 feet may not sound impressive now, but it was a big deal then. September 2019.

This is a reproduction of the Langley Medal posthumously awarded by the Smithsonian Institution to Dr. Robert H. Goddard in 1960. It is named after Samuel Pierpoint Langley, an aviation pioneer and ...

Dr. Robert H. Goddard first developed the theories needed to power a rocket engine via liquid fuel. This took some time, and once he moved from theory to practical application, things changed.