The Redstone Rocket was brought to New Hampshire back in 1971 by Henry "Ted" Asselin. He hoped to both honor Alan Shepard of Derry (the first American in space), and get younger generations interested in space.
Astronomy models are predicting that a comet which split apart in 1995 (and still fragmenting) is on track to enter our orbit with a grand display of meteors like nothing New England has seen in most of our lifetimes.