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A century after Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket from a Massachusetts cabbage patch, NASA says the best is still ahead. His 2.5-second flight changed everything we know about space exploration.
A rocket that flew just 40 feet in 1926 launched the technology now carrying astronauts back to the moon. Robert Goddard's liquid-fueled design became the blueprint for every major spacecraft since.
A rocket that flew for 2.5 seconds and landed in a cabbage patch changed everything. On March 16, 1926, Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched humanity into the space age.
A college professor's 11-foot invention flew for just three seconds into a cabbage patch on a snowy Massachusetts farm. That brief flight 100 years ago made possible every rocket launch since, including NASA's upcoming return to the Moon.