Book Description
Robert Goddard is the inventor of the rocket. In 1899 while trimming a cherry tree, he decides to build a rocket. He wrote that rockets could someday reach the moon. The first flight of a liquid fuel rocket is made in 1926. He tested rockets that fly over 8,000 feet high.


About the Author
Russell Roberts has written and published books on a variety of subjects, including Ten Days to a Sharper Memory, Discover the Hidden New Jersey, and Stolen! A History of Base Stealing. He also wrote Pedro Menendez Aviles and Philo T. Pharnsworth: The Life of Television's Forgotten Inventor for Mitchell Lane. He lives in Bordentown, New Jersey, with his family and a remarkably lazy, yet fiesty calico cat named Rusti.