90 years ago this week, on March 16, 1926, rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. See its legacy. Skip to main content ...

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 ...

Everyone knows how Robert Goddard built and flew the first-ever liquid fuel rocket on March 16, 1926. And they are absolutely right. Everyone also knows how this paved the road to space by ...

On March 16, 1926, Goddard successfully launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Mass. The rocket reached an altitude of 41 feet, lasted two seconds in the air and averaged about 60 ...

Forty years before John F. Kennedy's famous speech, physicist Robert Goddard had thoughts of sending a rocket to the moon.

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

A similar although more complex arrangement was used in the German V-2 rocket of World War II. However, Goddard's control vane system was not connected with the development of the system on the V-2.

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 ...

As we approach July’s 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing, this week marks the commemoration of a key moment in history that may have helped Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael ...