Exactly one hundred years ago, on this March Day, Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fuelled rocket into the sky, beginning the modeen age of rockets. It was a modest thing, only going 41 feet and travelling 184 in two and a half seconds. But a century later, what he and his invention have done for us is immense. There are probes on other planets, one of our objects has left the solar system entirely. We have walked on the moon, and plan to do it again. Without Nell, without that first flight, we would have never had any of this. So today, be grateful, be happy, that one hundred years ago, a craft no taller than a man went up, forty-one feet.
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