Goddard 1
Launch vehicle · USA
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The world's first liquid fuel rocket.
American test vehicle. Rocket used by Goddard to achieve the first flight of a liquid-propellant rocket.
Related
- Family
- Early Rocketry, test vehicle
- People
- Goddard
- Country
- USA
Chronology
7 events
1925 December 6
LV Family: Goddard. Launch Vehicle: Goddard 1.- First net thrust by a Goddard liquid fuel rocket. - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Goddard. Returning to the simple pressure feeding of the liquid propellants, to reduce weight, Goddard obtained in the Clark University Physical Laboratories a 24-sec test in which the lift was great enough to raise the rocket the last half of the run..
1925 December 30
LV Family: Goddard. Launch Vehicle: Goddard 1.- Goddard test of liquid rocket. - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Goddard. Rocket trembled in its support for 8 sec. .
1926 January 3
LV Family: Goddard. Launch Vehicle: Goddard 1.- Goddard test of liquid rocket. - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Goddard. Rocket again quivered for 17 sec..
1926 January 20
LV Family: Goddard. Launch Vehicle: Goddard 1.- Goddard test of liquid rocket. - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Goddard. The lift raised the rocket motor the full distance it could travel. Outdoor tests with a flight model were begun on March 8, 1926..
1926 March 16
Launch Site: Auburn. LV Family: Goddard. Launch Vehicle: Goddard 1.- First flight of a Goddard liquid-propellant rocket. - .
Nation: USA.
Related Persons: Goddard.
Apogee: 0.0125 km (0.0078 mi). Range: 0.0560 km (0.0348 mi).
Goddard achieves the first flight of a liquid-propellant rocket at Aunt Effie's Farm, Auburn, Massachusetts. Altitude 41 ft; average speed 60 mph; in air 2.5 sec; landed 184 ft from launching frame; total path 220 ft. This event was the "Kitty Hawk" of rocketry.
1926 April 3
Launch Site: Auburn. LV Family: Goddard. Launch Vehicle: Goddard 1.- Second flight of a Goddard liquid-propellant rocket - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Goddard. Apogee: 0.0150 km (0.0093 mi). Goddard achieves the second flight of a liquid-propellant rocket. In air 4.2 sec; landed 50 ft from testing stand..