A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites

Nevertheless, this rocket, named “Nell,” represented a historic achievement that would help launch the modern age of ...

The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, ...
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The world’s first modern rocket launched from a cabbage farm in Massachusetts 100 years ago

Robert Goddard is known as the father of modern rocketry, but at the time, many people mocked his ideas around space ...

The first liquid fueled rocket was launched 100 years ago today

Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.   The rocket was ...
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SpaceX kicks off 2026 with its first rocket launch tonight

SpaceX is starting 2026 with a high profile mission that will light up the skies over California tonight, sending an Italian radar satellite into orbit on a reusable Falcon 9. The flight is poised to ...

A scientist in Massachusetts launched the world's first modern rocket 100 years ago

One hundred years ago, Robert Goddard fired the first modern rocket. The launch, on what is now a golf course in Auburn, Massachusetts, paved the way for space exploration and much more.