From Cabbages to Countdowns: NASA Marks 100 Years of Modern Rocketry

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From Cabbages to Countdowns: NASA Marks 100 Years of Modern Rocketry

Photograph of Robert Goddard and his liquid-fueled rocket, prior to its first flight on March 16, 1926, from a farm at Auburn, Mass.

Credits: Esther Goddard, Courtesy of Clark University

Snow covered the ground that Tuesday morning 100 years ago, when a college...