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Goddard's Liquid-Fuel Rocket
Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket (gasoline and liquid oxygen) in Massachusetts on 16 March 1926.
Open in the interactive tree →The flight lasted 2.5 seconds, but Goddard also worked out gyroscope stabilisation, fuel pumps and nozzle design. German rocket engineers and later the V-2 and Saturn programmes built on liquid propellants.
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- Liquid-fuel rocket (V-2)1942Goddard's liquid-fuel rocket showed the propellant system the V-2 used