Every year I would purchase the grandparents membership to Space and Rocket Center.
When my grandchildren came to visit I would take there, they loved going to the Space Center.
The grandchildren were thrilled to watch the movie that was showing at the I-Max theater.
We saw the US Air Force Spy Plane that flew coast to coast in less than 68 minutes it was called Blackbird and it sat in front of the Space Center.
There was a playground for the little ones and a Simulator where you feel the sensation of weightlessness.
There were displays of rockets, boosters, capsules, space suits used in NASA missions over the years and 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, we learn about the Space Shuttle program, the International Space Station and the beginnings with NASA's Constellation project.
We saw the Saturn V, the 476 foot long. 90 foot wide and a 63-foot high spaceship that went into space and was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973.
In total NASA launched thirteen Saturn V rockets with no loss of payload. It remains the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever brought to operational status from a height, weight, and payload standpoint.
We saw Apollo 16 Casper,& 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, Sky-lab the first space station, the Pathfinder, the Liberty Bell 7-the lost spaceship, we saw Gus Grissom’s space suit, the Lunar Lander exhibit, and MMU and Spacesuit, etc.
My grandchildren were amazed at the size of the spaceships, at all the displays of history about space, and they enjoyed all the hands-on activities.
Space and Rocket Center has a space camp program where children learn about space and participate in space activities and 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 |
