Finding Nell…

“He didn’t preserve it as a sacred object… “

Robert Goddard (at left) and Henry Sachs, Percy Roope, and Esther Goddard with parts from the first liquid-fueled rocket after its history-making flight in Auburn, Massachusetts, March 16, 1926.

Robert Goddard/Clark University/collectSPACE.com

It flew for only two seconds, but its impact is still felt a century later.