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2 seconds that changed the world — the 1st liquid-fueled rocket launched 100 years ago today

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 ...
AOL

100 years after 1st modern rocket launched, humans are heading back to the moon

The experiment lasted only two and a half seconds, but it ignited a century of space exploration that sent humans to low Earth orbit and eventually to the moon. On March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard ...

Liquid vs. solid fuel rockets: What's the difference?

When it comes to powering rockets, you can either go with liquid fuel or solid fuel, but there are some critical differences ...
Ars Technica

A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites

Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts-born physicist, launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket on this date 100 years ago. It was not an overly impressive flight. The rocket, fueled by gasoline and ...
New Haven Register

The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight

(THE CONVERSATION) Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts. Exactly 100 years ago, on March ...
Ars Technica

100 years later, where is Robert Goddard’s first liquid-fuel rocket?

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 ...