View Robert Goddard First Rocket PNG. The very first episode in our ongoing rocket science history series 'the leap'. Stay tuned for part 2!

Subscribe to kinematic for more stories from space. A tribute to robert h goddard, scientist and space pioneer, who was the father of modern american rocketry. Goddard's first rocket designs achieved only about a 2% efficiency, which is incredibly low for a heat engine.

Goddard was the first to prove that thrust and consequent propulsion can take place in a vacuum, needing no air to push against.

Pictured above in 1937 in the desert near roswell, new mexico, goddard examines a nose cone and parachute from one of. Goddard was one of the three most prominent pioneers of rocketry and spaceflight theory. The artillery range at camp devens. Goddard from march 1926 to june 1945.