Robert Hutchings Goddard; The original `Rocket Man'.(LOCAL NEWS)

Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) | April 6, 2008 | Copyright

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Born Oct. 5, 1882, at 1 Tallawanda Drive, Worcester; died Aug. 10, 1945, at age 62 in Baltimore, of throat cancer.

What he did

Inventor of modern rocketry. Mr. Goddard developed and launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket March 16, 1926, at his Aunt Effie's Auburn farm (now Pakachoag Golf Course), an achievement inspired by his boyhood reading of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" and preceded by two decades of research, ...

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