On March 16, 1926, physicist Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket — powered by liquid oxygen and gasoline — from his aunt's farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. The flight lasted 2.5 seconds, reached 12.5 meters in altitude, and ended in a cabbage patch 56 meters away. That modest experiment launched the technological lineage behind every rocket that has since carried humans, satellites, and spacecraft into orbit and beyond.
