Rockets are a major part of American aviation and a common hobby in the form of model rockets, but where did the modern ...

Goddard with his Hoopskirt rocket during a launch attempt in September 1928. The fourth time was the charm for Robert H. Goddard’s “Hoopskirt Rocket,” so named for its resemblance to the ...

The donor, Robert Hutchings Goddard, had consigned his creation to an express company in Roswell, New Mexico, on November 2. "The rocket has been greased inside and out," he explained to ...