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

A multimedia show with songs, readings and astronauts celebrates the centennial of Goddard's liquid-fuel rocket launch.

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

On March 16, 1926, Clark University professor Robert Goddardfired up a rocket nicknamed “Nell,” powered by a blend of ...

Robert Goddard launched the 1st liquid-fueled rocket 100 years ago today.

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

One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen ...

Go back a generation of development, and excepting the shuttle-derived systems, all liquid rockets used RP-1 (aka kerosene) for their first stage. Now it seems everybody and their dog wants to fuel ...

Rockets launch to space almost every day. All of this incredible innovation owes a debt to a modest experiment that took ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun sets as NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 carries the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft ...

Click to open image viewer. This appears to be one of the first piston pumps tested by American rocket pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard in 1923 for his first experiments with liquid propellant rocket ...