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.

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.

WORCESTER ― The countdown is on for the centennial to celebrate 100 years since Worcester physicist, engineer, teacher, inventor and the "Father of Modern Rocketry" Robert H. Goddard's first ...

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

WORCESTER ― The countdown is on for the centennial to celebrate 100 years since Worcester physicist, engineer, teacher, inventor and the "Father of Modern Rocketry" Robert H. Goddard's first ...

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

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) ...

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… ...

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.