Robert H. Goddard
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Technology, Inventions, Aviation, Space Exploration
- Subcategories: Astronomy, Astronomers, Cosmology
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
Article abstract: As the deviser of the first successful liquid-fuel rocket and as a tireless explorer of the theoretical and practical problems of rocketry decades before the subject gained substantial support in the United States, Goddard stands as the great American pioneer of space travel.
Early Life
Robert Hutchings Goddard was born on October 5, 1882, in the central Massachusetts industrial city of Worcester. Nahum Goddard, then a bookkeeper for a manufacturer of machine knives, and his wife, the former Fannie Louise Hoyt, moved to Roxbury,...
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