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1882 – 1945Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945)Died 10 August 1945, aged 62Goddard was an American physicist who built and launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926. His pioneering work laid the theoretical and practical groundwork for later spaceflight technology, though he received little recognition in his own lifetime. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is named in his honor.