Who was Dr. Robert Goddard?
The father of modern rocket propulsion is the American, Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard. On March 16, 1926, Goddard successfully tested the first liquid fuel rocket, at Auburn Massachusetts. He was granted about 70 patents on rockets and rocket apparatus; they led to many of today’s powerful launch vehicles and spacecraft. In memory of the brilliant scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., was established on May 1, 1959.
