Celebrating the Rocket Man, Robert Hutchings Goddard

Miniature Robert Goddard biography that went to the moon with Buzz Aldrin On 16 March 1926, Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard launched a rocket from his aunt’s farm (now a golf course) in a town a few miles from where I live. The rocket did not go far in terms of physical distance. It shot up forty-one feet into the air and landed one hundred eighty-four feet away, having traveled for two and a half…