The initial prototype XB-47s had six General Electric J35 turbojets, each producing 3,750 pounds of thrust, for a total of 22 ...

On June 14, 1914, the first patent for a liquid-fueled rocket design was granted to Dr. Robert Goddard, an American scientist ...

One of the more memorable rocket launches came early in Rich’s career.

While rarely deployed against military targets, long-range missiles are a critical part of the defensive posture for the world's preeminent military powers.

Modern rockets, which use a liquid or solid fuel, didn't come into being until a scientist named Dr. Robert H. Goddard developed and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16 ...

One such figure was Robert H Goddard, the American engineer who built and launched the world’s first liquid-fuelled rocket. Goddard, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1882, also had a deep ...

We learned about rockets from him.” Robert Goddard was a space prophet without ... Goddard died in 1945 on the eve of the first U.S. test firings of captured V-28, leaving behind 22 volumes ...

inventor and the "Father of Modern Rocketry" Robert H. Goddard's first successful liquid-fueled rocket launch in Auburn on March 16, 1926. It will be a celebration that could have Worcester 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 ...

Robert Goddard conducted the first rocket test flight at his new laboratory in Roswell, New Mexico #OTD in 1930. His liquid fuel rocket reached a height of 610 meters (2,000 feet). (NASA ...