FIRST - World Launch of a Liquid Propelled Rocket - Auburn, MA
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N 42° 13.236 W 071° 48.878
19T E 267696 N 4678105
The first successful launch of a liquid propelled rocket was in Auburn.
Waymark Code: WMCXNT
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 10/23/2011
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Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard was a professor of physics at Clark University in Worcester, MA and the father of modern rocketry. In 1926, Goddard built and launched the first rocket using liquid fuel. The achievement is so significant that NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland was named in his honor.
On the ninth hole of the Pakachoag Golf Course there is a small parcel of land set aside as Pakachoag Park. On this spot there is a park sign, a tablet declaring Pakachoag Hill a Registered National Historic Landmark and a monument that commemorates Robert H. Goddard and the launch of the first liquid propellant rocket.
The tablet is mounted on a rock and is inscribed:
Pakachoag Hill
Goddard Rocket Launching Site
has been designated a
Registered National
Historic Landmark
Under the provisions of the
Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935
this site possesses exceptional value
in commemorating or illustrating
the history of the United States
U.S. Department of the Interior
National Park Service
1966
The monument to Robert H. Goddard is inscribed:
On March 16,1926
Dr. Robert H. Goddard
Launched
The worlds first
liquid propellant
rocket
from a point
1000 feet S.S.E.
of this tablet
on the property of
the Asa M. Ward family
Erected by the
American Rocket Society
July 13, 1960
in recognition of this
significant achievement
in the
evolution of astronautics
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