2 seconds that changed the world: Robert Goddard launched the 1st liquid-fueled rocket 100 years ago today

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It's been a century since a two-second rocket flight in Massachusetts kicked off the liquid-rocket-fuel revolution. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945), who directed the flight, is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern rocketry, along with Hermann Oberth in Germany and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in Russia. Goddard most notably designed, built and tested the first flown liquid-f