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The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight

  • Written by Michael Carrafiello, Professor of History, Miami University
The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflightRobert Goddard, considered the father of modern rocketry, standing with a rocket in 1935. Esther Goddard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts.

Exactly 100 years ago, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard launched...

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