Who said the United States’ 250th anniversary was the only birthday in town? 2026 is also the centennial year of a historic rocket launch that changed the way we understand space travel. Goddard had ...

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 – 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 ...

On March 16, 1926, American physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket was small, only about 10 feet long, ...

Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969. But those steps wouldn’t have been possible without Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts scientist who first successfully launched a liquid fuel rocket more than ...

Modern rocketry began 100 years ago this week, in a snowy field just south of Worcester and more than a thousand miles from the busy launch pads of Cape Canaveral. On March 16, 1926, Clark University ...

Worcester native Robert Goddard pioneered the first liquid fuel rocket launch 100 years ago on March 16, in a field at his aunt's home in Auburn. Area events are on tap to honor the centennial of the ...