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Goddard

American

[god-erd] / ˈgɒd ərd /

noun

Robert Hutchings 1882–1945, U.S. physicist: pioneer in rocketry.

Goddard British

/ ˈɡɒdɑːd /

noun

Robert Hutchings. 1882–1945, US physicist. He made the first workable liquid-fuelled rocket

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Goddard Scientific

/ gŏd′ərd /

American physicist who developed numerous rockets and rocket devices, including the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1926), the first instrument-carrying rocket that could make observations in flight (1929), and the first rockets to exceed the speed of sound.

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Abuse survivor Fiona Goddard, who resigned from the inquiry in October 2025, said it had been "a long fight".

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

Randall “Randy” Goddard of the LAPD’s Information Technology Bureau wrote streetlighting officials to say that the Palisades community “could use a big favor from your department.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

According to Scott Braun, a research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the eye was relatively large compared with many tropical cyclones.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

The telescope will send 11 terabytes of data a day down to Earth, said Mark Melton, a systems engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Scythe Goddard and his scythes strode to the center of activity.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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