So unobtrusively does Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., work on his study of the air’s upper miles by means of rockets that to many a Clark student he is ...

Three employees of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. were recipients of the 2010 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science. The award was bestowed upon Matt Greenhouse, Randy Kimble ...

America’s Robert Hutchings Goddard (right) launched the world’s first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926 and patented 214 devices and parts, most of them essential to the operation of modern rocket ...

Goddard’s launched the first liquid propulsion rocket on March 16, 1926, in Auburn and earned the title of “the Father of Modern Rocketry.” He was born in Worcester in 1882 and died in 1945.