After calling an Auburn park home for over 40 years, a Polaris missile is being moved to Worcester’s EcoTarium science museum, according to the Auburn Fire Department. The missile was removed from ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Memorandum, photograph, and booklet relating to the launching of Polaris, the United States Navy's first submarine-launched ballistic missile.
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 ...
From a vertical tube sunk below the main deck of the U.S.S. Observation Island, a converted merchant marine ship cruising seven miles off Cape Canaveral, Fla., a 28-ft. Polaris missile last week was ...