Huntsville Space and Rocket Centre, Alabama
The US space and Rocket centre is situated in Huntsville, Alabama, between Nashville and Birmingham and is where America developed the captured German Von Braun technology after the second world war. Parts of the original test range are still to be seen in the adjacent Marshall Space Flight Centre. Today, parts of the international space station are under construction in the Marshall complex, and public viewing is possible through escorted tours and galleries.
Outside at the Marshall center, various items of the space programme are on display, including scale models of the shuttle, used for publicity and promotion work.
Back at the Space and Rocket centre, the more durable items are located in an outside display, including life-size replica's of the shuttle and Saturn 5 rocket which placed man on the moon.
The more fragile items are located inside the museum under a carefully controlled environment. Items here include the Apollo Moon landing capsule, the quarantine base that was used to test the returning astronauts for contamination
A fragment of the Skylab space station which crashed into Australia in 1979, and........
....a piece of real Moon Rock!! One of only a very few pieces on Earth.
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