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Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard



Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard

Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard
DR. ROBERT HUTCHINGS GODDARD
Inventor - Scientist - Rocket Pioneer
Born October 5, 1882, Worcester, Massachusetts. After 15 years of painstaking research he launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926. It flew 184 feet in 2 1/2 seconds, or about 70 miles an hour. Three years later, in 1929, he successfully launched a rocket that carried a payload of camera and a barometer. In 1935 he fired the first gyroscopically controlled rocket to an altitude of 4,800 feet at 550 miles an hour.

His monumental research into rocket flight provided the guidance and inspiration which led to man's successful exploration of space. Honored by the world as the inventor of modern rocketry. Died 1945.
Elected to the International Aerospace Hall of Fame
1966