This week in 1926, Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket.
It was a 42-second flight that sparked a century of spaceflight, from the Apollo 11 moon landing to today’s private rocket boom.
https://theconversation.com/the-first-modern-rocket-launched-100-years-ago-beginning-a-century-of-both-innovations-and-challenges-for-spaceflight-269061
The Conversation U.S.
npub1gp…q88e5
2026-03-17 22:00:08 UTC
Author Public Key
npub1gpefz2ehal9k2huay0kqawxapywweegvz968h9l33yay4wzzkrcspq88e5Published at
2026-03-17 22:00:08 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "2b8641af5755fd465e38aa495b628f495e0ae852a9bc5b74c8224725b3c89c08",
"pubkey": "4072912b37efcb655f9d23ec0eb8dd091cece50c11747b97f1893a4ab842b0f1",
"created_at": 1773784808,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/116246761229212312",
"web"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://newsie.social/users/TheConversationUS/statuses/116246761229212312",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://newsie.social/users/TheConversationUS/statuses/116246761229212312",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "This week in 1926, Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket. \n\nIt was a 42-second flight that sparked a century of spaceflight, from the Apollo 11 moon landing to today’s private rocket boom.\nhttps://theconversation.com/the-first-modern-rocket-launched-100-years-ago-beginning-a-century-of-both-innovations-and-challenges-for-spaceflight-269061",
"sig": "db97d3c2319632fc3a05fef452406211cf3dd5fae1b079aae515a4b678cf48847ef26e72dd3202b86b610478b70c1971a102d2486cb7cbd999df2ac2ada12d84"
}