"Ninety (three) years ago today, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945)
launched the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket...
The rocket took off from a snowy field
outside Worcester, Massachusetts, reaching a height of about 12.5 meters
(41 feet) and a distance of 56 meters (184 feet). It was smashed on
impact.
This event did not even make the local newspapers; indeed the reticent professor kept it secret for a decade."
