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  2. Robert H. Goddard - Wikipedia

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    The Dr. Robert H. Goddard Collection and the Robert Goddard Exhibition Room are housed in the Archives and Special Collections area of Clark University's Robert H. Goddard Library. [102] Robert H. Goddard High School was completed in 1965 in Roswell, New Mexico, and dedicated by Esther Goddard; [103] the school's mascot is titled "Rockets". [104]

  3. Tsiolkovsky rocket equation - Wikipedia

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    A rocket's required mass ratio as a function of effective exhaust velocity ratio. The classical rocket equation, or ideal rocket equation is a mathematical equation that describes the motion of vehicles that follow the basic principle of a rocket: a device that can apply acceleration to itself using thrust by expelling part of its mass with high velocity and can thereby move due to the ...

  4. Milton Lehman - Wikipedia

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    Lehman wrote about Robert Goddard (here, with launching frame of 1st liquid-fueled rocket – March 16, 1926) Lehman wrote some 250 articles, contributed to national magazines including the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Look, and New York Times. [2] Books: This High Man: The Life of Robert H. Goddard (1963) [6] [5]

  5. Worcester, Auburn begin plans for Robert Goddard rocket ... - AOL

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    Robert H. Goddard stands with the world's first liquid-propellant rocket on Pakachoag Hill in Auburn on March 16, 1926. When launched, the rocket soared 341 feet high and 184 feet downrange in 2.5 ...

  6. Goddard problem - Wikipedia

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    In rocketry, the Goddard problem is to optimize the peak altitude of a rocket, ascending vertically, and taking into account atmospheric drag and the gravitational field. This was first posed by Robert H. Goddard in his 1919 publication, "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes".

  7. Portal:Spaceflight/Selected biography - Wikipedia

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    Robert Goddard. Robbert Hutchings Goddard (1882–1945) is considered to be one of the fathers of modern rocket propulsion. A physicist of great insight, Goddard also had a unique genius for invention. By 1926, Goddard had constructed and tested successfully the first rocket using liquid fuel.

  8. Robert Esnault-Pelterie - Wikipedia

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    Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (8 November 1881 – 6 December 1957) was a French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist. He is referred to as being one of the founders of modern rocketry and astronautics, along with the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Germans Hermann Oberth, Wernher von Braun and the American Robert H. Goddard.

  9. Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) - Wikipedia

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    Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), the American physicist and inventor who built and launched the world's first liquid-propellant rocket on March 16, 1926. [1] Goddard held 214 patents for his inventions and pioneering innovations in liquid-propelled, guided, and multi-stage rockets.