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Modern rocketry turns 100—and NASA says the best is yet to come

A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy ...
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NASA's Artemis program relies on technology that just turned 100 years old

100 years after Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, NASA is preparing a return to the moon with the Artemis program.

Experience NASA's history at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Explore NASA's rich history and even feel the rumble of a launch at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.

The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts. Exactly 100 years ago, on March 16, 1926, Robert H.

Meet Robert Goddard: The man behind a 2.5-second rocket crash that shaped 100 years of NASA spaceflight

A century ago, in a quiet cabbage patch in Auburn, Massachusetts, something happened. Dr Robert H. Goddard, a Clark University Physics professor, fired up a small rocket powered by liquid fuel. It ...

NASA's mega-crawler to move Artemis II moon rocket to launch pad in Florida

NASA's Crawler-Transporter 2 will soon move the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building to pad 39B ahead of launch.

NASA to conduct Artemis rocket rollout in Florida. How to watch

NASA's giant moon rocket will soon be rolled back to the launch pad ahead of the Artemis 2 launch date in April. Here's how to watch live coverage.