From Cabbages to Countdowns: NASA Marks 100 Years of Modern Rocketry
Snow covered the ground that Tuesday morning 100 years ago, when a college professor and his wife took a morning drive to the family farm a few miles south in Auburn, Massachusetts. Along for the ride, the couple brought two work colleagues — and “Nell.” They may not have known it at the time, but […]
Published by NASA on 03/09/2026