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Visit to the US Space & Rocket Center

  1. Rockmastermike Aug 13, 2015

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    Family trip to Huntsville, Alabama to the visit the US Space and Rocket Center & Marshall Flight Visitor Center.
    GREAT Facility with many static displays and interactive simulators, robots, activities for both young and old.

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    Saturn V broken out into stages - massive and massively impressive

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    Saturn V F1 Engines....hard to explain the scale of just how large these are, just incredible

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    Astronaut Jackson in a Mercury capsule and space suit

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    Large Speedmaster keeping watch over a lunar rover and lander

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    Nice Outside displays, too:

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  2. tpatta Happily spending my daughter’s inheritance Aug 13, 2015

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    Great pictures. Looks like a great trip. In the early 60's my dad worked on the Saturn 5 engines at the test facility not far from our home.
    I'll never forget the earth shaking noise at our house when they test fired them. We lived 7 miles away and you could literallly feel it in your bones.
     
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