The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts.

Object Details Summary This pen knife belonged to the American rocket pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945). A professor of physics at Clark University, Goddard launched the world's first liquid ...

The rocket, launched by Isar Aerospace from within the Arctic Circle at a spaceport on the icy Norwegian island of Andøya, was the first orbital flight outside of Russia to leave continental Europe.

In the near century since Robert Goddard, the founder of modern rocketry, fired the first liquid-fuel rocket into the sky, rocket scientists worldwide have favored liquid-fuel engines to power ...

On July 7, 1914, Robert Goddard obtained a patent – the first of 214 – for a “Rocket Apparatus”. A pioneer in rocketry, Goddard was certainly ahead of his time. Join A.S.Ganesh as he takes ...

It was there, on March 16, 1926, that Robert Goddard carried out the first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket: a 10 foot cylinder that flew for just two and half seconds to an altitude of ...

WORCESTER, Mass. - 98 years ago Saturday, Robert Goddard launched the first ever liquid-fueled rocket. To commemorate the occasion, the city of Worcester announced plans to host a centennial ...

Robert H. Goddard stands with the world's first liquid-propellant rocket on Pakachoag Hill in Auburn on March 16, 1926. When launched, the rocket soared 341 feet high and 184 feet downrange in 2.5 ...

WORCESTER ― The countdown is on for the centennial to celebrate 100 years since Worcester physicist, engineer, teacher, inventor and the "Father of Modern Rocketry" Robert H. Goddard's first ...

Robert Goddard conducted the first rocket test flight at his new laboratory in Roswell, New Mexico #OTD in 1930. His liquid fuel rocket reached a height of 610 meters (2,000 feet).

March 16, 1926: American engineer, physicists, and inventor Robert Goddard — the namesake of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — successfully launches the first liquid-fueled rocket.