Rockets are a major part of American aviation and a common hobby in the form of model rockets, but where did the modern ...

The fourth time was the charm for Robert H. Goddard’s “Hoopskirt ... issued a patent for a multi-stage rocket in 1914. Less than a decade after the first flight of the Hoopskirt, he launched ...

Robert Goddard’s long relationship with the ... when he sent the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket sputtering aloft to a peak altitude of 41 feet above a Massachusetts cabbage patch.

Robert H. Goddard is often referred to as the "father of modern rocketry" for his pioneering research in liquid propulsion. On that fateful day in 1926, Goddard launched a small rocket that flew for ...

Finally back on the Third Stone from the Sun, astronauts Sunita Williams and Eugene "Butch" Wilmore have returned from a much ...

Jean was carrying not one but two signs: one read “DITCH DOGE” while the other read, “THANK YOU VETERANS” with a bald eagle ...

Among its highlights are: the world’s best collection of artifacts from American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard, an extensive collection of German World War II missile and rocket artifacts, a large ...