Worcester native Robert Goddard pioneered the first liquid fuel rocket launch 100 years ago on March 16, in a field at his aunt's home in Auburn. Area events are on tap to honor the centennial of the ...
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 ...
Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...
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 ...
100 years ago, a liquid-fueled rocket flew into the sky for the very first time. The unlikely contraption was designed by Clark University physics professor Robbert Goddard, and launched from a ...
WORCESTER – Only a month short of the 100th anniversary of Robert Goddard's first successful liquid-fueled rocket launch, community leaders gathered at the late scientist's house to kick-off ...
"The Rocket Man: The Robert Goddard Musical" runs March 27 to April 4 at the Museum of Worcester. The show is written by Worcester composer and playwright Stephen Murray. Millbury High School biology ...
Less than a century ago, astronomers relied entirely on ground-based observations to further scientific study. Today, descendants of that first liquid-fueled rocket provide eyes on cosmic phenomena, ...
It's been a century since a two-second rocket flight in Massachusetts kicked off the liquid-rocket-fuel revolution. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945), who directed the flight, is widely considered to be ...
On a quiet farm field in Massachusetts, a tall physics professor worked on a simple homemade rocket to be propelled by gasoline and liquid oxygen. On March 16, 1926, the machine briefly came to life, ...
Modern rocketry began 100 years ago this week, in a snowy field just south of Worcester and more than a thousand miles from the busy launch pads of Cape Canaveral. On March 16, 1926, Clark University ...
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