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The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight

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The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Goddard, considered the father of modern rocketry, standing with a rocket in 1935. Esther Goddard/Hulton Archive/Getty ...
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Medal from first modern Olympics dramatically exceeds estimate at auction

A medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games smashed auction estimates, selling for about four times its expected price at a Danish auction house on March 1. The silver medal from the 1896 Athens ...
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The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michael Carrafiello, Miami University (THE CONVERSATION) Apollo 11 first landed ...
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The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight

(THE CONVERSATION) Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts. Exactly 100 years ago, on March ...