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 ...
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Astronauts’ Perspectives on NESC Contributions to Mission Safety and Success

This article is from the 2025 Technical Update. The exact date when the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia was lost is readily recalled by Patrick Forrester, as it likely would be for any NASA employee in ...

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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100 years after Robert Goddard's 1st liquid-fueled rocket launch, NASA is using the technology to send astronauts back to the moon

100 years ago, a liquid-fueled rocket flew into the sky for the very first time. The unlikely contraption was designed by ...

Spaceflight Started 100 Years Ago in a Massachusetts Cabbage Patch

Before humanity sent satellites, telescopes, humans and weapons into space, Robert Goddard experimented with the first liquid ...