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 ...

Robert H. Goddard, the American father of modern rocketry, built and tested the world's first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926. His achievement is considered as significant as the Wright Brothers' first ...

Goddard with his Hoopskirt rocket during ... 1928 to get this, his second liquid-fuel rocket design, to fly, hoping merely for a successful demonstration of its rocket motor.

WORCESTER — The boyhood home of rocket scientist Robert H ... of the college's physics building. Goddard's first successful rocket using liquid fuel was launched in Auburn March 16, 1926.

On Episode 160 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Charles Slatkin to talk about the legacy of Dr. Robert Goddard, the "Father of Rocketry." ...

For that was how Robert Goddard, now celebrated as a pioneer ... A week later, he received his second – for a rocket using liquid fuel. It was in 1914 that Goddard began teaching in Clark ...

Robert Hutchings Goddard, the “Father of Modern Rocketry,” was born in Worcester on Oct. 5, 1882, and launched the world’s first liquid-fuel rocket from his Aunt Effie Ward’s farm on ...

Goddard has long been considered the father of modern rocketry, but it wasn’t always that way. His ideas of sustainable rocket-powered flight were ridiculed by some colleagues early on, and ...

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 ...