A century ago, in a quiet cabbage patch in Auburn, Massachusetts, something happened. Dr Robert H. Goddard, a Clark University Physics professor, fired up a small rocket powered by liquid fuel. It ...

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its ...

"We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is." ...

NASA's powerful Launch Abort System, designed to outrun an exploding rocket, is the result of years of work from scientists ...