The Falcon 1 made history on September 28, 2008 by becoming the "first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth orbit," according to SpaceX. Hear from the team that made it happen. Credit ...

On 16 March 1926, Goddard launched the world's first liquid fuel rocket. It is therefore possible that he used liquid oxygen and kerosene with this piston pump. He continued to experiment with liquid ...

The last attempt to launch a satellite from Australian soil was in 1971, when the British Black Arrow rocket lifted off from ...

This is the H-1 liquid-fuel rocket engine. The H-1 was the first stage powerplant for the Saturn 1 and Saturn 1B launch vehicles, the precursors to the Saturn V which took humans to the moon in the ...

On February 16, 1935, Charles Mansur, Albert W. Kisk, and Nils Thure (left to right) fitted Goddard's liquid-fuel A-3 rocket to the launch tower. Smithsonian/National Air and Space Museum (NASM ...