Less than a century ago, astronomers relied entirely on ground-based observations to further scientific study. Today, descendants of that first liquid-fueled rocket provide eyes on cosmic phenomena, ...

Ninety years ago today, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) launched the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket. His rickety contraption, with its combustion chamber and nozzle on top, ...

Goddard with his Hoopskirt rocket during a launch attempt in September 1928. The fourth time was the charm for Robert H. Goddard’s “Hoopskirt Rocket,” so named for its resemblance to the wire-frame ...

The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts. Colleen Anderson Robert Goddard, an American physicist and inventor, built many of his early rockets at his workshop in Roswell, New Mexico.

WBJ to launch INNOVATORS publication in honor of Robert Goddard's rocket launch anniversary, and solicits ideas from readers. Robert Goddard and his liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket at what is now the ...

HERE IS HOW THEY’RE GETTING THAT DONE. >> H ’E'S CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF MODERN ROCKET PROPULSION. AND NOW THE CHILDHDOO HOME OF DR. ROBERT GODDARD HAS BEEN BOUGHT WITH PLANS TO TURN IT INTO A MUSEUM ...

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 ...

Robert H. Goddard's first rocket soared for about 2 1/2 seconds, flew as fast as 60 mph and landed 174 feet from the lift-off pad — a snow-covered patch of dirt in his aunt's backyard. As we approach ...

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. —Robert H. Goddard “Why do you ask us about rockets?” said a captured German V-2 ...