WORCESTER ― The countdown is on for the centennial to celebrate 100 years since Worcester physicist, engineer, teacher, inventor and the "Father of Modern Rocketry" Robert H. Goddard's first ...

The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts. Colleen Anderson Robert Goddard, an American physicist and inventor, built many of his early rockets at his workshop in Roswell, New Mexico.

When most people think of rockets, they likely imagine something like SpaceX's Raptor engine, or they might recall the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon. Rockets aren't ...

AUBURN — It wasn’t quite a launch into space — more of a slight lift onto a flatbed. A 34-foot high Polaris A2 rocket, which had been proudly standing in Robert H. Goddard Park for 55 years, was ...

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. —Robert H. Goddard “Why do you ask us about rockets?” said a captured German V-2 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This tank was part of a static test ...

Carbon copy (typescript), with mounted black and white photographs, of a portion of the Goddard archival collection. The original version of these documents are housed at the Roswell Museum and Art ...

KEPLER LAUDED: NASA’s exo-planet hunting Kepler space telescope mission has won the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy for 2014, the Washington-based non profit National Space Club announced Feb. 6.

After calling an Auburn park home for over 40 years, a Polaris missile is being moved to Worcester’s EcoTarium science museum, according to the Auburn Fire Department. The missile was removed from ...