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* 1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and inventor ( b. 1882 )

He also cast leading actors such as Claudette Colbert, Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Jetta Goudal, Robert Preston, Paulette Goddard and Charlton Heston in multiple pictures.

Along with his followers, the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.

* 1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

Robert Goddard

In 1912 Robert Goddard, inspired from an early age by H. G. Wells, began a serious analysis of rockets, concluding that conventional solid-fuel rockets needed to be improved in three ways.

* Robert Goddard -- America's Space Pioneer

March 16: Robert H. Goddard | Goddard with rocket in 1926.

* March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

* July 17 – The New York Times publicly takes back the ridicule of the rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published in 13 Jan 1920 that spaceflight is impossible.

Robert Goddard and his rocket, 1926

* Robert Goddard makes the first flight of a liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.

* August 10 – Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist ( b. 1882 )

* January 13 – The New York Times ridicules the American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard.

* October 5 – Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist ( d. 1945 )

A comprehensive catalog of vehicles, technology, astronauts, and flights, it includes information from most countries that have had an active rocket research program, from Robert Goddard to the NASA Space shuttle to the Soviet Shuttle Buran.

The concept of the ablative heat shield was described as early as 1920 by Robert Goddard: " In the case of meteors, which enter the atmosphere with speeds as high as 30 miles per second, the interior of the meteors remains cold, and the erosion is due, to a large extent, to chipping or cracking of the suddenly heated surface.

Robert Goddard ( 1882 – 1945 ) was an American scientist and pioneer of modern rocketry.

Robert Goddard is also the name of:

* Robert Goddard, witness in a trial after the Boston Massacre ( 1770 )

* Robert Goddard ( novelist ) ( born 1954 ), British novelist

* Robert Hale Ives Goddard ( 1837 – 1916 ), American businessman and politician from Rhode Island

* Robert Hale Ives Goddard III ( 1941-), American anthropologist and linguist

* Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard ( 1897 – 1987 ), British Royal Air Force officer