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 ...

On March 16, 1926, American physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket was small, only about 10 feet long, ...

Goddard had many impressive firsts beyond the first liquid fueled rocket. He was the first to implement a De Laval nozzle on a rocket something that greatly improves rocket efficiency and is used on ...

Click to open image viewer. This device is the oldest surviving liquid-propellant rocket in the world. It was designed and built by U.S. rocket experimenter Robert H. Goddard in Worcester, ...

Click to open image viewer. This is the WAC-Corporal liquid-fuel sounding rocket, the U.S.'s first successful sounding rocket. Developed from 1944 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it could lift 25 ...