Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a fortuitous quest for adventure that led Gerald Hastings, 10, to Asa Ward Farm on March 16, 1926, where he witnessed ...

There’s a moment in John Williams’s Star Wars overture when the brass surges upward. You don’t just hear it; you feel propulsion turning into pure possibility. On 16 March 1926, in a snow-dusted field ...

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, ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A century after Robert H. Goddard ignited the world's first liquid-fuel rocket and set humanity on its path to space, a new book invites readers to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Massachusetts continues to mark the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Worcester area is counting down to a ...

Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969. But those steps wouldn’t have been possible without Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts scientist who first successfully launched a liquid fuel rocket more than ...

One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. That flight lasted roughly 2.5 seconds. Today, ...

Robert Goddard's first successful liquid-fueled rocket launch was on March, 16, 1926, in Auburn. Many events are being planned to celebrate the centennial of the launch locally and nationally. The ...

Goddard had many impressive firsts beyond the first liquid fueled rocket. He was the first to implement a De Laval nozzle on a rocket something that greatly improves rocket efficiency and is used on ...

Robert Goddard's Massachusetts brings this iconic and inspirational story to life for a general audience. Published by Arcadia Press as part of its Images of America series, the book features more ...