{"id":3313,"date":"2026-03-16T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:49:56","slug":"robert-goddard-fired-the-first-liquid-fueled-rocket-in-1926-in-cambridge-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3313","title":{"rendered":"Robert Goddard Fired the First Liquid-fueled Rocket in 1926 in Cambridge, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert Goddard fired the first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926 in Cambridge, Massachusetts<\/strong>. Prior to this launch, only solid-fueled propellents had been constructed. His work regarding different fuels and rockets became the foundation of America\u2019s space program. Older children can see how liquid-fueled rockets work at: <a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/rocket5.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/rocket5.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Goddard fired the first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to this launch, only solid-fueled propellents had been constructed. His work regarding different fuels and rockets became the foundation of America\u2019s space program. Older children can see how liquid-fueled rockets work at: http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/rocket5.htm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4693,3344,3432,5390,158,3431],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4693","tag-cambridge","tag-liquid-fueled-rocket","tag-march-16","tag-massachusetts","tag-robert-goddard","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29262,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/29262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}