Goddard, Robert Hutchings
American Inventor and Educator 1882-1945
Robert Hutchings Goddard was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on October 5, 1882. After reading science fiction as a boy, Goddard be...
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Robert Hutchings Goddard
1882-1945
American Physicist
Goddard was an early advocate of rocketry and space travel and is one of the principal inventors of the liquid fluid rocket. Beginning in 1926 he ...
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Goddard, Robert H. (1882-1945)
American physicist
Robert H. Goddard was foremost among the first generation of rocket and space pioneers. Goddard not only contributed to space flight theory, but also ...
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Robert H. Goddard
Born October 5, 1882 (Worcester, Massachusetts)
Died August 10, 1945 (Annapolis, Maryland)
American physicist, rocket pioneer
Robert Goddard is credited with launching the world�...
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Excerpt from a Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes by Robert H. Goddard
Excerpt from A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes
Published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1919; also available at Clark U...
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From childhood, Goddard had been fascinated by space travel, finding inspiration in part from H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds. He experimented avidly as an adolescent, attempting to work out the princ...
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The American pioneer in rocketry Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) was one of the founders of the science of astronautics.Robert Goddard was born on October 5, 1882, in Worcester, Mass., the son of...
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