First liquid-fuelled rocket launch
- Who
- Unknown
- What
- First
- Where
- United States (Auburn,Massachusetts)
- When
- 01 January 0001
The earliest launch of a liquid-fuelled rocket (patented 14 Jul 1914) was by Dr Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) of the USA, at Auburn, Massachusetts, USA on 16 Mar 1926, when his rocket reached an altitude of 12.5m 41ft and travelled a distance of 56m 184ft.