NASA wants to know how the launch industry’s chic new rocket fuel explodes

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...

The first liquid fueled rocket was launched 100 years ago today

Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.   The rocket was ...

A Centenary for Rocket Science

Robert H. Goddard achieved the first liquid-fuel launch on March 16, 1926.
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100 years after 1st modern rocket launched, humans are heading back to the moon

On March 16, 1926, the first liquid-fueled rocket launched from Massachusetts.

Repaired moon rocket heads back to launch pad for April 1 blastoff

After a trip back out to the launch pad, NASA's Artemis II rocket will be readied for a historic flight to the moon.
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NASA's Artemis program relies on technology that just turned 100 years old

100 years after Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, NASA is preparing a return to the moon with the Artemis program.

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

Nevertheless, this rocket, named “Nell,” represented a historic achievement that would help launch the modern age of ...
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The world’s first modern rocket launched from a cabbage farm in Massachusetts 100 years ago

Robert Goddard is known as the father of modern rocketry, but at the time, many people mocked his ideas around space ...
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2 seconds that changed the world — the 1st liquid-fueled rocket launched 100 years ago today

Robert Goddard launched the 1st liquid-fueled rocket 100 years ago today.

Second company plans Shetland rocket launch this year

A number of firms hope to use SaxaVord Spaceport in Unst as a launch site for commercial rockets.

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

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, ...
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100 years after Goddard, liquid-fueled rockets power NASA’s moon push

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, ...