Goddard developed and launched the world’s first … 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.

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

2001-03-18 04:00:00 PDT Worcester, Mass.-- Seventy-five years ago, on a snow-covered field of Effie Ward's farm in the suburbs of Worcester, Mass., the space age began. There were no big headlines ...

That nephew was Robert Hutchings Goddard, inventor of the liquid-fuel rocket. Goddard died in 1945. In the mid-1950s, ... Lehman received a gift from Esther Goddard, Robert's widow.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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