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NASA prepares Artemis II rocket for moon launch

A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites

Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts-born physicist, launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket on this date 100 years ago.

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Nasa's Artemis Moon rocket rolls back to pad for possible April launch

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NASA Hauls Its Repaired Moon Rocket From the Hangar Back to the Pad for an Early April Launch

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Repaired Artemis II rocket returns to launch pad

The Artemis II rocket, which will send astronauts around the far side of the moon, is returning to the launch pad after an issue forced NASA to roll the rocket back for repairs last month.

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Nasa readies Artemis rocket for launch ahead of first Moon mission in 50 years

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Astronauts try blasting off to moon after earlier problems

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NASA's moon rocket vertical at Kennedy Space Center for Artemis 2

Teams worked for hours beginning early morning Friday, March 20 to slowly roll the towering Space Launch System rocket across a 4-mile span of the Kennedy Space Center.

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Artemis II rocket rolls out to KSC launch pad

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NASA's Artemis II SLS rocket rolls out to KSC pad ahead of moon mission

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

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.

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The world’s first modern rocket launched from a cabbage farm in Massachusetts 100 years ago

Robert Goddard is known as the father of modern rocketry, but at the time, many people mocked his ideas around space exploration.

The first liquid fueled rocket was launched 100 years ago today

Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket was small, only about 10 feet long, and the flight brief, lasting only 2.5 seconds,

A scientist in Massachusetts launched the world's first modern rocket 100 years ago

One hundred years ago, Robert Goddard fired the first modern rocket. The launch, on what is now a golf course in Auburn, Massachusetts, paved the way for space exploration and much more.