From World War II to the Apollo era, the space shuttle program and today’s privately developed commercial rockets, the landscape of spaceflight has changed dramatically.
Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts.
Exactly 100 years ago, on March 16, 1926, Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket. L... [6413 chars]