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Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard: The First Modern Rocket
Who invented rockets?
Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard built the first modern rocket in 1962 it was successful and was powered by liquid fuel. In Auburn, Massachusetts although it was the first rocket it didn’t impress the government officials.

The History of rockets?
Rockets have taken in a lot of experiments and a lot of research to be where there is today. Even thought Dr. Robert Hutching Goddard built the first modern rocket the first successful rocket that used the scientific use of a rocket was a wooden bird, built by a guy named Archtas he amazed the citizens of Tarentum. About 300 years later another man named Alexandria invented the aeolipile. Although there were those rockets the first true rocket seems to be unclear because in the

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