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When Robert Goddard delivered the valedictorian address at his graduation from Worcester’s South High School in 1904, he reached a prescient conclusion: “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”

Goddard knew something about dreams. Just five years earlier, he climbed his family’s cherry tree and looked up into a sky full of stars — and in that moment, young Robert experienced a vision of space travel that occupied him for the rest of his life. 🌌

Last week, a new cherry tree was planted at Goddard’s childhood home, starting the countdown to the 100th anniversary of the Clark physicist’s first-ever successful launch of a liquid-fuel rocket. 🚀

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📸 Charles Slatkin ’74 speaks at the First Launch Space Centennial kickoff at the Robert and Esther Goddard Center for Innovation, where a cherry tree was planted in honor of Goddard’s “Anniversary Day.”