Goddard: Celebrating 100 Years Since Launch of 1st Liquid-Fueled Rocket
“Tried rocket at 2:30,” Robert Hutchings Goddard recounted in his diary on that frosty afternoon in 1926 at “Aunt Effie’s farm” in Auburn, Massachusetts. “It rose 41 ft, and went 184 ft, in 2.5 sec, after the lower half of nozzle has burned off,” he wrote. Goddard’s March 16th experiment marked […]