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 ...

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.

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.

But the first liquid-fueled rocket flight was as significant to space exploration as the Wright brothers’ first flight was to air travel, and 90 years later, his patents are still integral to ...

Dr. Robert H. Goddard Summary This appears to be the rocket motor used by U.S. rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard for his first flight at Roswell, New Mexico, on 30 December 1930. This was Goddard's ...

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 ...

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

Prior to Goddard’s experimentation, rockets had not changed much in several centuries. Chinese engineers invented them as war machines in the 13th century, using solid gunpowder as fuel.