While the space shuttle Discovery is still in orbit and serving the International Space Station you might recall the beginning of the space age on March 16, 1926 when Robert H. Goddard launched his first liquid-fueled rocket. Don’t remember this?
Check out the Salem Press History database on the NHTI Library homepage - a source that includes Great Lives from History: the Twentieth Century - for more information about Goddard. Learn how the reading the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells inspired his fascination for space travel. In Great Events from History: the Twentieth Century you will find the article “Launching the First Liquid-Fueled Rocket” that describes the 3- second launch of a gasoline and liquid oxygen propelled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts. It marked a giant advance towards space exploration; after this, Goddard became known as the father of modern rocketry.
Visit the Salem History homepage “Spotlight on History” for March; it has links to the above articles.
