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 ...

The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts. Colleen Anderson Robert Goddard, an American physicist and inventor, built many of his early rockets at his workshop in Roswell, New Mexico.

Less than a century ago, astronomers relied entirely on ground-based observations to further scientific study. Today, descendants of that first liquid-fueled rocket provide eyes on cosmic phenomena, ...

Robert Lester Goddard 1939 – 2021 San Diego, CA Robert, age 82, passed away at his home in Pacific Beach, San Diego, on August 23, 2021. He was born April 21, 1939, in Winthrop, MA, to George Ralph ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Dr. Robert Goddard, a physics professor in Massachusetts, had a vision, one might even say an obsession. Inspired by reading books by H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, Goddard committed ...

Ninety years ago today, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) launched the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket. His rickety contraption, with its combustion chamber and nozzle on top, ...

CHANNEL FIVE. SPACE MAY SEEM PRETTY FAR FROM HERE. IN REALITY, IT’S ONLY ABOUT 60 MILES NORTH, AND THE ROOTS OF SPACE TRAVEL ARE EVEN CLOSER THAN YOU MIGHT THINK. NOT AT NASA, NOT AT A SECRET BASE ...

MYERS, Robert Goddard Robert Goddard Myers, 76, formerly of Haddam Neck, died quietly in his sleep Wednesday, (February 9, 2005) at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, after a long illness. Born in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a bronze reproduction of the ...