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.

CHANNEL FIVE. SPACE MAY SEEM PRETTY FAR FROM HERE. IN REALITY, IT’S ONLY ABOUT 60 MILES NORTH, AND THE ROOTS OF SPACE TRAVEL ARE EVEN CLOSER THAN YOU MIGHT THINK. NOT AT NASA, NOT AT A SECRET BASE ...

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 ...

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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 ...