Goddard Contributions

This lesson mentions some of the contributions of Robert Hutchings Goddard.  On March 16, 1926 Robert Goddard launched the first successful liquid- fuel rocket, a feat as historically significant as the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903. The information in this lesson correspond to other lessons based on Goddard’s contribution in the SpacEdge Academy.

Index:

• Introduction
  Announcements
• Early Years
• Time of Inspiration
• Rocket Propulsion
• The 1920s
• The Importance of Esther Goddard
• Further Innovations
• Loretta Hall & Rocket Engines
• Goddard’s Idea of the Future: Gyroscopes
• Goddard and Art
• Goddard Space Flight Center: Where History Fuels Tomorrow
• Envisioning the Future of Rocketry: Robert H. Goddard
• Send a Postcard to Space!