Every year, I would purchase the grandparents' membership to the Space and Rocket Center.
When my grandchildren came to visit, I would take them there; they loved going to the Space Center.
The grandchildren were thrilled to watch the movie playing at the IMAX theater.
We saw the US Air Force Spy Plane that flew coast to coast in less than 68 minutes. It was called the Blackbird, and it sat in front of the Space Center.
There was a playground for the little ones and a simulator that simulates the sensation of weightlessness.
There were displays of rockets, boosters, capsules, and space suits used in NASA missions over the years, along with a summer space camp.
We would take the bus to Marshall Space Flight Center to watch the construction of NASA's new space station.
We learned about Huntsville's role in the making of the moon rocket, the space race, the Apollo missions, the Space Shuttle program, the International Space Station, and the beginnings of NASA's Constellation project.
We saw the Saturn V, which is 476 feet long. The 90-foot-wide, 63-foot-high spaceship was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973.
In total, NASA launched 13 Saturn V rockets with no payload loss. It remains the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever brought to operational status, considering its height, weight, and payload.
We saw Apollo 16 Caspe and& the Apollo boilerplate, which tested the launch escape system, in the New Mexico desert at White Sands Missile Range.
We saw the Lunar Module Apollo 16 LM, Skylab, the first space station, the Pathfinder, the Liberty Bell 7-the lost spaceship, Gus Grissom's space suit, the Lunar Lander exhibit, and the MMU and Spacesuit, etc.
My grandchildren were amazed by the size of the spaceships, the displays of historical space, and they enjoyed all the hands-on activities.
The Space and Rocket Center offers a space camp program where children learn about space and participate in related activities. Sometimes, we would stop and watch.
Once at Space Camp, we watched a man in a scuba suit swimming in a tank of water.
At the end of our trip, I would let each grandchild pick something from the gift shop.
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| Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Jake and Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Jake and Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Jake and Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Jake at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Jake at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Jake at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Jake and Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Jake at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Jake and Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Jake and Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
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| Jake and Hannah at the Space and Rocket Center |
Space the final frontier!
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