Among its highlights are: the world’s best collection of artifacts from American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard, an extensive collection of German World War II missile and rocket artifacts, a large ...

part of the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The launches will be the first of the season. As of April 2024, Poker Flat had launched 350 major sounding rockets and about 1,800 ...

At the time, though, he was experimenting in Massachusetts and needed more room for launching his rockets safely. That's why Goddard moved to Roswell in 1930 with a small team of assistants.

30 years after the Norwegian rocket incident. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY2.0 When the Cold War ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union ...