| While engineers pursued many amazing developments in aviation during
the first half of the 20th century, other Americans, like Robert H. Goddard,
dedicated themselves to new achievements in the area of rocketry. In 1926,
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket and laid the foundation
for a technology that would eventually take man to the moon and beyond.
Fueled by liquid oxygen and gasoline, Robert Goddard's rocket flew for
only 2.5 seconds, climbed 41 feet, and landed 184 feet away in a cabbage
patch. |
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