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 ...

Summary: The Ethan Allen-class submarines, designed as successors to the George Washington class, were central to the U.S. Navy’s “41 for Freedom” ballistic missile fleet during the 1960s. Built to ...

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.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: For Britain, it was an almost unbelievable coup—“the bargain of the century,” as one observer called it. Polaris was a far more effective weapons system that ...

Six miles east of Cape Canaveral one night last week, the 16,100-ton converted merchant ship Observation Island steamed an easterly course in gently rolling seas. The seagoing missile laboratory, ...