Goddard rocket research. Machinist Henry Sachs in a workshop in New Mexico, USA, with one of the rocket designed by US rocket scientist Robert H. Godd

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Goddard rocket research. Machinist Henry Sachs in a workshop in New Mexico, USA, with one of the rocket designed by US rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945). This rocket was used in the first flight here on 30 December 1930. Despite receiving little recognition during his lifetime, Goddard is now hailed as a father of modern astronautics. He explored mathematically the feasibility of reaching high altitudes using rocket propulsion, and in 1926 built the first liquid-fuel rocket. His speculations about Moon rockets were ridiculed by his contemporaries, and his achievements were only recognised after his death with the dawn of the Space Age.

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