One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. That flight lasted roughly 2.5 seconds. Today, ...

It's been a century since a two-second rocket flight in Massachusetts kicked off the liquid-rocket-fuel revolution. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945), who directed the flight, is widely considered to be ...

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

Click to open image viewer. This device is the oldest surviving liquid-propellant rocket in the world. It was designed and built by U.S. rocket experimenter Robert H. Goddard in Worcester, ...

Robert Goddard's first successful liquid-fueled rocket launch was on March, 16, 1926, in Auburn. Many events are being planned to celebrate the centennial of the launch locally and nationally. The ...

Click to open image viewer. These are parts from the liquid-fuel rocket, L-series, 1938, of the American rocket pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard. It was the last of the L-Series of liquid fuel rockets ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A century after Robert H. Goddard ignited the world's first liquid-fuel rocket and set humanity on its path to space, a new book invites readers to ...

Goddard had many impressive firsts beyond the first liquid fueled rocket. He was the first to implement a De Laval nozzle on a rocket something that greatly improves rocket efficiency and is used on ...