The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts.

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.

WORCESTER — While his legacy extends far into outer space, Robert H. Goddard, known as the father of modern rocket propulsion, has origins squarely in Central Massachusetts, specifically in ...

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 ...

At age 12 received a miniature volume called “The Autobiography of Robert H. Goddard.” According to Slatkin, Buzz Aldrin carried an identical copy to the moon with him in 1969 and later ...

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1882, Robert H. Goddard is known as the "father of modern rocketry" and is credited for creating and testing the world's first liquid-fuel rocket.

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 ...