The American pioneer in rocketry Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) was one of the founders of the science of astronautics. Robert Goddard was born on October 5, 1882, in Worcester, Mass., the son of Nahum Danford Goddard, a businessman, and Fannie...

From childhood, Goddard had been fascinated by space travel, finding inspiration in part from H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds. He experimented avidly as an adolescent, attempting to work out the principles and calculations for rockets and space travel....

1882-1945 American Physicist Goddard was an early advocate of rocketry and space travel and is one of the principal inventors of the liquid fluid rocket. Beginning in 1926 he was able to launch a series of successful rockets, eventually obtaining...

American Inventor and Educator 1882-1945 Robert Hutchings Goddard was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on October 5, 1882. After reading science fiction as a boy, Goddard became excited about exploring space. He pioneered modern rocketry in the United...

Excerpt from A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes Published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1919; also available at Clark University (Web site) Since the late seventeenth century, scientists have been fascinated with the idea of space travel. The...

Born October 5, 1882 (Worcester, Massachusetts) Died August 10, 1945 (Annapolis, Maryland) American physicist, rocket pioneer Robert Goddard is credited with launching the world's first liquid-propellant rocket. (A liquid-propellant rocket is...

Robert Hutchings Goddard, Ph.D. (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945), U.S. professor and scientist, was a pioneer of controlled, liquid-fueled rocketry. He launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926. From 1930 to 1935 he...

From the Cold War to Voyager, the work of Robert Goddard has gone the distance. SENSATIONAL HEADLINES APPEARED in newspapers from coast to coast on Jan. 12, 1920. The Boston American proclaimed "A Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach the Moon."...

Aviation Week and Space Technology, the Bible of the aerospace business--insiders call it Aviation Leak and Space Terminology--just named its top 100 figures in the development of flight. Glenn Curtiss was number five, one slot ahead of Charles Lindbergh, and you've never heard...

Today is Friday, March 16, the 75th day of 2007. There are 290 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 16, 1945, during World War II, Iwo Jima was declared secured by the Allies.On this date:In A.D. 37, Roman emperor Tiberius died; he...