The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts.

Robert Goddard stands with his test rocket, the first to use liquid propellant, in Worcester, Mass., on March 16, 1926. Professor Goddard then stated that the term "moon rocket." ...

In 1929, Goddard launched the first rocket with a payload – a camera and a barometer. In 1930, Goddard moved to New Mexico to continue his research in private.

2001-03-18 04:00:00 PDT Worcester, Mass.-- Seventy-five years ago, on a snow-covered field of Effie Ward's farm in the suburbs of Worcester, Mass., the space age began. There were no big headlines ...

Robert H. Goddard, the American father of modern rocketry, built and tested the world's first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is named in his honor.

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90 years ago this week, on March 16, 1926, rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. See its legacy.

Robert Goddard with his first liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts. / Photo via Wikimedia/ Creative Commons Dr. Robert Goddard obtained a total of 214 patents during his lifetime.

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, 1926.

Robert Goddard, an American physicist and inventor, built many of his early rockets at his workshop in Roswell, New Mexico. Smithsonian/National Air and Space Museum (NASM 2003-4818) ...

Prior to Goddard’s experimentation, rockets had not changed much in several centuries. Chinese engineers invented them as war machines in the 13th century, using solid gunpowder as fuel.

While the world marvels at the Mars rovers, Dr. Robert Goddard dreamed of sending rockets into space nearly a hundred years ago. In his autobiography, Robert Goddard wrote about an inspiration he h… ...