March 12, 2026, 5:08 a.m. ET
Within the Aerospace Engineering Department at Higgins Laboratories of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, students and faculty are working at getting new ideas off the ground.
In the century since Worcester native and WPI alum and physics instructor Robert Goddard launched the first successful liquid fuel rocket, successive generations have built on the work of Goddard and other trailblazers who keep looking up.