Robert Goddard with Rocket
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Robert Goddard with world's first successful liquid-fuel rocket. After a failed attempt on March 8, 1926, he launched it on March 16.
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Esther Goddard took this picture of her husband Robert with the rocket inside its launch frame on March 8, 1926, in Auburn, Massachusetts. After a failed attempt that day, he successfully launched it on March 16.
Credit:
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Photo Number:
SI A-42103
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Date:
1926
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