Legacy
Goddard was credited with 214 patents for his work; 131 of these were awarded after his death.
The Goddard Space Flight Center, a NASA facility in Maryland, was established in 1959. The crater Goddard on the Moon is also named in his honor.
On September 16, 1959, the U.S. Congress authorized the issuance of a gold medal in the honor of Professor Robert H. Goddard.
He was the 1960 recipient of the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution.
The Dr. Robert H. Goddard Collection and the Robert Goddard Exhibition Room are housed in the Archives and Special Collections area of Clark University's Robert H. Goddard Library. Outside the library lies a structure depicting the flight path of Goddard's first liquid fuel rocket.
The Chemical Engineering department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is housed in Goddard Hall.
Goddard's home town of Worcester established the Goddard School of Science and Technology, an elementary school, in 1992.
Robert H. Goddard High School was completed in 1965 in Roswell, New Mexico and dedicated by Esther Goddard; the school's mascot is appropriately titled "Rockets".
The Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program Goddard Achievement, corresponding to promotion to Cadet Chief Master Sergeant is named for him.
A small memorial with a statue of Goddard is located at the site where Goddard launched the first liquid-propelled rocket, now the Pakachoag golf course in Auburn, Massachusetts.
Goddard Auditorium is located on the Earlham College campus in Richmond, Indiana.
The problem of optimizing the altitude of a rocket under atmospheric drag and gravity is referred to as the Goddard problem.
Release 13 of the Linux distribution Fedora is named after Goddard.
Goddard is also mentioned in the last episode of the TV series Fullmetal Alchemist. The protagonist, Edward Elric, shows interest in rocketry after reading Goddard's "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" and decides to study rocketry with Hermann Oberth.
The television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" had a shuttlecraft named after Goddard.
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