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From: hopkins@emav49.webo.dg.com (Charlie Hopkins)
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Subject: Re: First Liquid-Fueled Rocket Launching by Goddard - 65th Anniversary
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Date: 18 Mar 91 13:27:08 GMT
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In article <21141@shlump.nac.dec.com>, klaes@advax.enet.dec.com (Larry Klaes) writes:
|> 
|>     	Saturday, March 16, marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of Robert
|>     Goddard's launching of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, the
|>     ancestor of all modern liquid-fueled booster.  The flight took place
|>     in Auburn, Massachusetts (near Worcester) in 1926 and lasted only 2.5
|>     seconds, reaching an altitude of 12.3 meters (41 feet) and landing 
|>     (crashing, actually) 55.2 meters (184 feet) from the launch site in 
|>     his Aunt Effie's cabbage patch.  Today the launch area is commemorated 
|>     with a small monument surrounded by a busy street and numerous stores, 
|>     including the Auburn Mall.
|> 
|>          Larry Klaes 	klaes@advax.enet.dec.com
|>     			or  ...!decwrl!advax.enet.dec.com!klaes
|>     			or  klaes%advax.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com
|>     			or  klaes%advax.enet.dec.com@uunet.uu.net
|> 
|>               "All the Universe, or nothing!" - H. G. Wells
|> 
|>          EJASA Editor, Astronomical Society of the Atlantic


The actual site is between the first and ninth fairways of a golf course on
a hilltop near the Auburn Mall.  It is marked by a small granite obelisk about
1 meter tall.  I've played past it many times.  There is a "Rocket Park"
commemorating Goddard beside the mall.

Charlie
(I have no opinions)