We now know that Goddard’s 1930s rockets—as remarkable as they were for being built by one man with a few helpers—were no match for the German army’s accomplishments.

Robert H. Goddard, the American father of modern rocketry, built and tested the world's first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is named in his honor.

Modern rockets, which use a liquid or solid fuel, didn't come into being until a scientist named Dr. Robert H. Goddard developed and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926.

When the Apollo 11 mission launched on July 16, 1969, it drove the New York Times to issue one of the most famous newspaper corrections in history.

Since the early days of modern rocketry, with the pioneering work of Robert H. Goddard in the mid-1920s, most rockets have relied on a liquid-fuel engine to hurl them to the sky. NASA:. While ...

The Encyclopedia Astronautica called Mr. Truax “one of the great originals of American rocketry.” He died at age 93 of prostate cancer on Sept. 17 in Valley Center, Calif., said his wife, Marisol.