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 ...

One such figure was Robert H Goddard, the American engineer who built and launched the world’s first liquid-fuelled rocket. Goddard, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1882, also had a deep ...

The principles of rocket design have stayed true for nearly a century to those of the American inventor Robert H. Goddard, who launched the world’s first liquid fueled rocket in 1926.

The award recognizes NASA and the industry team led by Northrop Grumman for their extraordinary contributions to U.S. leadership in the field of astronautics. The Goddard Trophy will be presented at ...

Lowdermilk said that by using a recycled plastic solid fuel in the core, it allows for close to 1000 less propellant that would otherwise go into a liquid fueled rocket. This in turn allows for ...

WORCESTER ― The countdown is on for the centennial to celebrate 100 years since Worcester physicist, engineer, teacher, inventor and the "Father of Modern Rocketry" Robert H. Goddard's first ...

In the near century since Robert Goddard, the founder of modern rocketry, fired the first liquid-fuel rocket into the sky, rocket scientists worldwide have favored liquid-fuel engines to power ...

Born in 1882, Goddard is widely regarded as the father of modern rocket propulsion. Among his nifty modern tricks was to conduct the first successful launch of a liquid-fuel rocket (prior to that ...

Robert Goddard conducted the first rocket test flight at his new laboratory in Roswell, New Mexico #OTD in 1930. His liquid fuel rocket reached a height of 610 meters (2,000 feet).