Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 21, 1931, Germany launched its first liquid-fueled rocket … sort of. The rocket only made it about ten feet off the ...

Go back a generation of development, and excepting the shuttle-derived systems, all liquid rockets used RP-1 (aka kerosene) for their first stage. Now it seems everybody and their dog wants to fuel ...

It's been a century since a two-second rocket flight in Massachusetts kicked off the liquid-rocket-fuel revolution. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945), who directed the flight, is widely considered to be ...

Goddard had many impressive firsts beyond the first liquid fueled rocket. He was the first to implement a De Laval nozzle on a rocket something that greatly improves rocket efficiency and is used on ...

Click to open image viewer. This appears to be one of the first piston pumps tested by American rocket pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard in 1923 for his first experiments with liquid propellant rocket ...

Worcester native Robert Goddard pioneered the first successful liquid fuel rocket launch March 16, 1926, at his aunt's home in Auburn, changing the history of space flight forever. At Worcester ...

Worcester native Robert Goddard pioneered the first liquid fuel rocket launch 100 years ago on March 16, in a field at his aunt's home in Auburn. Area events are on tap to honor the centennial of the ...

Research suggests that rocket exhaust and debris could be threatening the ozone layer, though many uncertainties persist.

It’s worthwhile to recall that aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh brought about that connection.

Click to open image viewer. This is the RS-1 liquid-fuel rocket sled used at the U.S. Air Force's rocket sled test track at Holloman AFB, N.M., during 1958 to 1959. It reached low supersonic speeds ...

Modern rocketry began 100 years ago this week, in a snowy field just south of Worcester and more than a thousand miles from the busy launch pads of Cape Canaveral. On March 16, 1926, Clark University ...