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In 1926, Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket from a snowy Massachusetts field; 35 years later, NASA formally dedicated Goddard Space Flight Center

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The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum accounts described an event on March 16, 1926, that changed history in an unprecedented way: the launch of the first liquid-propellant rocket, pioneered by Robert H. Goddard, that took place without livestreams, countdowns, confetti cannons, headlines in newspapers, or a single mention in the media. The launch simply took place on a neighbouring farm near Worcester, Massachusetts, with only a physics professor, his wife, two assistants, and a rocket standing in the snow.

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