March 16, 1926: The First Liquid-Propellant Rocket Launch
Document Type
Document
Date
3-1926
Keywords
Robert Goddard, rocketry, liquid-propellant rocket
Description
A short excerpt from The Papers of Robert H. Goddard covering his diary entries on March 16th and 17th, 1926, recounting the world's first successful launch of a liquid-fuel rocket. Meticulously curated and edited by Esther C. Goddard and G. Edward Pendray, The Papers of Robert H. Goddard is a 1700-page 3 volume set published in 1970. The set presents a careful and exhaustive chronological presentation of Robert Goddard's life through diary snippets, notebook entries, correspondence, publications, speeches, patent outlines, school papers, press, reports and more. This excerpt comes from the section of Volume 2 titled 1925-1930: Liquid-Propellant Rockets Fly. The entirety of Papers of Robert H. Goddard can be found here.
Disclaimer: The images in these scans have been rendered somewhat distorted after the fact. We apologize for this error. Thankfully, most of the photographs used in these papers are part of the The Goddard Rocket Researches: A Photographic Record and can be seen individually in high-quality scans.
Recommended Citation
Goddard, Robert H.; Goddard, Esther C.; and Pendray, G. Edward, "Robert Goddard's diary entries, March 16-17, 1926 [excerpt from The Papers of Robert H. Goddard]" (1926). March 16, 1926: The First Liquid-Propellant Rocket Launch. 29.
https://commons.clarku.edu/goddardlaunch/29
