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The city of Worcester is launching a year of festivities in the honor of Robert Goddard, scientist and engineer, whose discoveries have helped pave the way for the space age.
These events coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first inhabited lunar landing on July 20th.
The Telegram of Gazette reports that Mayor Joseph Petty proclaimed Saturday the "Robert Goddard National Day" during a ceremony at the Broad Meadow Brook Shrine of the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
The Worcester native developed the first liquid fuel rocket launched in Auburn in 1926.
Petty said that Goddard's contributions to science have finally made the space program and moon landing possible, as well as modern technologies such as cell phones and global positioning systems.
Goddard died in 1945.
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