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.

Here’s why Aldrin packed the credit-card-sized book “The Autobiography of Robert Hutchings Goddard, Father of the Space Age,” which is now on display at Worcester’s Clark University.

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 Kim… ...

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

RUSSIA’S Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky (left) never built a rocket, but by 1898 he had worked out the basic principles of rocket dynamics. America’s Robert Hutchings Goddard (right ...

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 ...

Robert Coleman Richardson was born June 26, 1937, in Washington and grew up in Arlington County. He graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 1954 and received a bachelor’s degree in 1958 and ...

robert garrity convicted of manslaughter in the second degree and sentenced to seven years in the state prison. share full article. feb. 27, 1877.