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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Inspired by the amazing legacy of Dr. Robert H. Goddard, known as the father of the space age, the organization is ...

Carbon copy (typescript), with mounted black and white photographs, of a portion of the Goddard archival collection. The original version of these documents are housed at the Roswell Museum and Art ...

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. —Robert H. Goddard “Why do you ask us about rockets?” said a captured German V-2 ...

A team of engineers from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., is hard at work on a project to “recreate history” by building a pair of replicas of the world’s first liquid-fueled ...