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, ...

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, ...

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.

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 american institute of aeronautics and astronautics will rededicate a monument to rocket pioneer Robert Goddard on July 21 at Auburn, Mass. Goddard made the first successful launch of a ...

Americans of the WWII generation will probably recognize the name of Massachusetts-born scientist Robert Goddard (1882–1945), who frequently made the pages of American newspapers and magazines in the ...

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 device, made by U.S. rocket ...

AUBURN — It wasn’t quite a launch into space — more of a slight lift onto a flatbed. A 34-foot high Polaris A2 rocket, which had been proudly standing in Robert H. Goddard Park for 55 years, was ...

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 ...

The Worcester birthplace and childhood home of Robert Goddard, who is known as the father of modern rocketry, has been sold to a multimedia and space nonprofit founder, Charles Slatkin, according to a ...

Scientific men have explored rivers, seas, mountains, jungles; with heavy drills they have probed into the earth, with powerful telescopes into the skies. Of the sac of gases about the earth they have ...