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American Inventors:

Rocket Scientist Robert Goddard

Robert H. Goddard is shown June 8, 1938 at Roswell, New Mexico, with one of the rockets he developed from 1926 to 1941. (AP Photo)

Today rocket launches and space missions are common. But in the early 1900s, space travel seemed like a dream.

One of the most influential people in the field of rocket science was American Robert Goddard.

The American space agency NASA describes Goddard as “the father of modern rocket propulsion.”