Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust ...

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, ...

On June 14, 1914, the first patent for a liquid-fueled rocket design was granted to Dr. Robert Goddard, an American scientist and rocket pioneer. In the patent, Goddard described a rocket fueled with ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This device is the oldest surviving liquid-propellant rocket in the world. It was designed and built by U.S. rocket ...

WBJ to launch INNOVATORS publication in honor of Robert Goddard's rocket launch anniversary, and solicits ideas from readers. Robert Goddard and his liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket at what is now the ...

The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts. Colleen Anderson Robert Goddard, an American physicist and inventor, built many of his early rockets at his workshop in Roswell, New Mexico.