1903-2003 CENTURY OF FLIGHT GREAT MOMENTS IN AVIATION; FATHER OF THE ROCKET BOYS

Dayton Daily News | March 11, 2002| | Copyright

Editor's note: Each Monday until the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight on Dec. 17, 2003, we'll showcase great moments in a century of flight.

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."

- Dr. Robert H. Goddard

On Tuesday, March 16, 1926, U.S. physicist Robert Hutchings Goddard turned his Aunt Effie's orchard in Auburn, Mass., into a missile site. His experimental rocket whooshed 41 feet into the air in 2 1/2 seconds. The feat sounds unimpressive, but it was the world's first flight of a liquid-fueled ...

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