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First Flight of a Liquid Propellant Rocket

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Dr. Robert H. Goddard and a liquid oxygen-gasoline bipropellant rocket in the frame from which it was fired on March 16, 1926, at Auburn, Massachusetts. Although the rocket flew for only 2.5 seconds, it climbed 41 feet and landed 184 feet away.

From 1930 to 1941, Dr. Goddard made substantial progress in the development of progressively larger rockets, which attained altitudes of 8,000 feet (2400 meters), and refined his equipment for guidance and control, his techniques of welding, and his insulation, pumps and other associated equipment. In many respects, Dr. Goddard laid the essential foundations of practical rocket technology. He is considered one of the fathers of rocketry along with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) and Hermann Oberth (1894-1989).

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Robert Goddard liquid oxygen gasoline rocket Auburn, Massachusetts

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Rocket Launches, VIPs-People at NASA-NACA

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Center Number: Goddard-1926
GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2002-000132

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Source: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2002-000132.html

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(del) (cur) 23:43, 31 March 2007 . . Neckro (Talk | contribs) . . 2400×2946 (4,126,137 bytes) (Higher-res copy from source, losslessly converted to greyscale to make the filesize a bit smaller)
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