Prof. Goddard’s Turbine Rocket Ship For Flight To Moon - Popular Science, December 1931. Illus

Prof. Goddard’s Turbine Rocket Ship For Flight To Moon-Popular Science, December 1931. Illustration: Edgar F. Wittmack.

Rocket pioneer of the 1920’s and ‘30’s, Robert Goddard, is credited with creating and building the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket. He was an engineer, inventor, physicist, and professor. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center was named in Goddard’s honor in 1959.