Goddard Launches the First Liquid Fuel Propelled Rocket
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science, Technology, Inventions, Aviation, Space Exploration
- Subcategories: Scientists, Physics, Physicists, Astronomy, Astronomers, Cosmology, Energy, Fuel, Power Sources
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: Massachusetts, New England
- Date: March 16, 1926
Article abstract: Using liquid oxygen and gasoline as fuels, Goddard pioneered the first practical liquid fuel rocket, setting the stage for future developments in modern rocketry.
Summary of Event
Just as the conquest of the air had its twentieth century origins with the rather inauspicious trials in 1903 of the Wright brothers at Kittyhawk, North Carolina, so too the seemingly insurmountable obstacle of space flight had its humble beginnings with the initial test of Robert H. Goddard’s liquid-fueled rocket in an Auburn, Massachusetts, cabbage patch...
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