Modern Rocketry
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NASA
Celebrating 100 Years Since Goddard’s Breakthrough Moment in Modern Rocketry
From the voyages of spacecraft to the Moon and beyond, to the launches of satellites that help us navigate, communicate, and understand our planet and the universe, the use of liquid-fueled rockets has been key to humanity’s use and exploration of space. Today marks 100 years since the first successful test of this technology. On March 16, 1926, physicist and…
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From Cabbages to Countdowns: NASA Marks 100 Years of Modern Rocketry
Snow covered the ground that Tuesday morning 100 years ago, when a college professor and his wife took a morning drive to the family farm a few miles south in Auburn, Massachusetts. Along for the ride, the couple brought two work colleagues — and “Nell.” They may not have known it at the time, but thanks to Nell, the four…
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