Did you know that today 88 years ago Robert H. Goddard launched his first liquid fuel rocket?  March 16, 1926.

Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket, which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

Goddard’s work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many of the developments that were to make spaceflight possible.^[4] He has been called the man who ushered in the Space Age.

Goddard Space Center  is named in recognition of Dr. Robert H. Goddard(1882–1945), the pioneer of modern rocket propulsion in the United States.