Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a fortuitous quest for adventure that led Gerald Hastings, 10, to Asa Ward Farm on March 16, 1926, where he witnessed ...

WORCESTER — The boyhood home of rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard has been purchased by a couple that plans to preserve the landmark property and use it as an educational resource. Charles and Marcia ...

Robert Goddard's Massachusetts brings this iconic and inspirational story to life for a general audience. Published by Arcadia Press as part of its Images of America series, the book features more ...

On a quiet farm field in Massachusetts, a tall physics professor worked on a simple homemade rocket to be propelled by gasoline and liquid oxygen. On March 16, 1926, the machine briefly came to life, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Massachusetts continues to mark the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Worcester area is counting down to a ...

On the ninth fairway at the Pakachoag Golf Course in Auburn, Massachusetts, lies a small granite obelisk commemorating the dawn of the space age. It was there, on March 16, 1926, that Robert Goddard ...

There’s a moment in John Williams’s Star Wars overture when the brass surges upward. You don’t just hear it; you feel propulsion turning into pure possibility. On 16 March 1926, in a snow-dusted field ...

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Less than a century ago, astronomers relied entirely on ground-based observations to further scientific study. Today, descendants of that first liquid-fueled rocket provide eyes on cosmic phenomena, ...

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 ...

WORCESTER – Only a month short of the 100th anniversary of Robert Goddard's first successful liquid-fueled rocket launch, community leaders gathered at the late scientist's house to kick-off ...

HERE IS HOW THEY’RE GETTING THAT DONE. >> H ’E'S CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF MODERN ROCKET PROPULSION. AND NOW THE CHILDHDOO HOME OF DR. ROBERT GODDARD HAS BEEN BOUGHT WITH PLANS TO TURN IT INTO A MUSEUM ...