This Day in History: Robert H. Goddard Performs the First Flight Test of a Liquid Fueled Rocket

The First Liquid Fueled Rocked Launch, March 16, 1926

This Day In History: March 16, 1926

On This day in history, 1926, Robert Goddard performed the first flight test of a liquid-fuel rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts.  This gasoline and liquid oxygen fueled rocket burned for about…