Robert Goddard launched the 1st liquid-fueled rocket 100 years ago today.

On March 16, 1926, the first liquid-fueled rocket launched from Massachusetts.

Before humanity sent satellites, telescopes, humans and weapons into space, Robert Goddard experimented with the first liquid ...

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, ...

One hundred years ago, Robert Goddard fired the first modern rocket. The launch, on what is now a golf course in Auburn, Massachusetts, paved the way for space exploration and much more.

A 2.5-second rocket flight that heralded decades of discovery in space, Robert H. Goddard’s achievement at his Aunt Effie’s ...

Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.   The rocket was ...

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, ...

Massachusetts sparked Huntsville's journey to becoming Rocket City. Discover the legacy of Robert H. Goddard today!

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...