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Goddard's 1926 Rocket

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Goddard's 1926 rocket was the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, designed and built by American physicist Robert H. Goddard and successfully launched from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts on March 16, 1926. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1926 1
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Robert H. Goddard 1
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Source Wikipedia: Robert H. Goddard
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1. Wikipedia: Robert H. Goddard
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Robert Hutchings Goddard...was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.
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