In 1926, a 10-foot rocket rose just 41 feet from a Massachusetts farm; 35 years later, NASA put its creator’s name in space |
[ad_1] A replica of the world’s first liquid propellant rocket, PC: Wikimedia Commons On March 16, 1926, on a snowy farm in Auburn, Massachusetts, physicist Robert H. Goddard set up a slim, 10-foot rocket he had nicknamed Nell on a launch frame in an open field. Fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen, the rocket climbed…