Last week, I was in Huntsville, Alabama on a business trip. There is very little in Huntsville and as I'm told, Huntsville would be even less except for NASA's presence there. So, I was fortunate enough to get a chance to walk through the US Space and Rocket Museum while I was there. It was very impressive. Much larger than I would have imagined.
The park - you can see all the Space Camp students in the middle of a scavenger hunt
The Orion Crew Exploration vehicle, a project currently in progress, expected to carry crew and cargo to the moon
A fully restored Saturn V test rocket
One of the two monkeys who were the first to survive space flight lived at this Huntsville museum until 1984. Baker was the monkey's name. We got to see the nose cone of the missile where the two monkeys rode into space back in 1959.
The nose cone that carried Able and Baker into space
The park - you can see all the Space Camp students in the middle of a scavenger hunt
The Orion Crew Exploration vehicle, a project currently in progress, expected to carry crew and cargo to the moon
A fully restored Saturn V test rocket
One of the two monkeys who were the first to survive space flight lived at this Huntsville museum until 1984. Baker was the monkey's name. We got to see the nose cone of the missile where the two monkeys rode into space back in 1959.
The nose cone that carried Able and Baker into space
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 |
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Yes. Walking through the US Space and Rocket Centre at Huntsville, Alabama is an overwhelming experience. I had also been there two years back as a member of Space Camp India. It's been a memorable experience. We got to make and launch our own rockets, perform activities like Zero - G Wall, etc which the real life astronauts have to go through during training. We visited the Space museum. The entire trip was very enthralling. Not only did I learn a lot about space studies but also made some great friends. You can see some of our pictures at http://spacecampindia.com/ Those 8 days have been the best days of my life!!!
Thanks for sharing your experience at Space Camp and the spacecampindia.com website. It really looks like an amazingly good time!