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

On March 16, 1926, Goddard succeeded in launching the world’s first liquid-fuelled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts. Nicknamed “Nell”, the rocket flew for about 2.5 seconds, reaching a height ...

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 ...

Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat ... which is part of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The experiment, titled Auroral Waves Excited by Substorm ...

Depending on weather, cloud cover, Florida rocket launches can typically be seen from Daytona Beach to Melbourne to Vero Beach, sometimes West Palm Beach. Watching a launch while at the beach is ...

part of the Goddard Space Flight Center. The timing of the experiment is no accident. Although scientists were on standby to launch the rockets when an auroral substorm erupted, they were ...

Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion, and while fission propulsion is rapidly developing, most believe fusion propulsion is still a ways off. However, a new U.K.-based company is ...

Isar Aerospace will try again on March 30, weather permitting. The first orbital rocket to launch from continental Europe is nearing its debut. Germany-based Isar Aerospace has scrubbed another ...