A 2.5-second rocket flight that heralded decades of discovery in space, Robert H. Goddard’s achievement at his Aunt Effie’s ...

On March 16, 1926, the first liquid-fueled rocket launched from Massachusetts.

Robert Goddard launched the 1st liquid-fueled rocket 100 years ago today.

Before humanity sent satellites, telescopes, humans and weapons into space, Robert Goddard experimented with the first liquid ...

Robert Goddard is known as the father of modern rocketry, but at the time, many people mocked his ideas around space ...

Massachusetts sparked Huntsville's journey to becoming Rocket City. Discover the legacy of Robert H. Goddard today!

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 21, 1931, Germany launched its first liquid-fueled rocket … sort of. The rocket only made it about ten feet off the ...

Click to open image viewer. This is the WAC-Corporal liquid-fuel sounding rocket, the U.S.'s first successful sounding rocket. Developed from 1944 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it could lift 25 ...

One hundred years ago, Robert Goddard fired the first modern rocket. The launch, on what is now a golf course in Auburn, Massachusetts, paved the way for space exploration and much more.