One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. That flight lasted roughly 2.5 seconds. Today, ...

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

Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.   The rocket was ...

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

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...

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

100 years after Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, NASA is preparing a return to the moon with the Artemis program.

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

Robert Goddard's 1926 launch of the first liquid-fueled rocket, though modest, marked a pivotal moment in rocketry. His ...