This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Unheralded Rocket Pioneering Flight Signals Space Age
Forty years earlier Dr. Robert H Goddard launched the first liquid fueled rocket from a Auburn Massachusetts field on March 16 1926. The tiny device rose 41 feet before falling 184 feet away in 25 seconds marking the birth of interplanetary exploration.
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