Alabama Public Radio is celebrating forty years on the air in 2022. The APR news team is diving into our archives to bring you encore airings of the best of our coverage. That includes this story from 2019. APR observed the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo Eleven manned moon landing with a series of reports. APR student intern Jonathan Holle reported on an event in Huntsville to commemorate that “one small step” on the moon.
Space Command landing in Huntsville: NASA space exploration in vintage Alabama photos
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
The birthplace of NASA’s rockets lies in the land of cotton, hundreds of miles from Cape Canaveral’s launch pads.
From the first U.S. satellites and astronauts, to the Apollo moon shots, to the space shuttles and now NASA’s still-in-development Space Launch System, rocket history inundates Huntsville, Alabama.
Miss Baker was a squirrel monkey, one of two monkeys who would become the first animals to be launched into space by the United States and be recovered alive. From 1971 until her death in 1984, she lived at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. (Contributed by Wikipedia Commons) bnbn
U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville has new leader [al.com]
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville has a new leader.
The Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission announced Tuesday that Dr. Kimberly Robinson has been chosen executive director and CEO of the museum.
Robinson is currently NASA’s utilization manager for advanced exploration systems and was previously the payload mission manager for Artemis I, the first integrate flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the Space Launch System rocket and the Exploration Ground Systems at Kennedy Space Center.
She is a 31-year NASA veteran and will assume her role at the rocket center on Feb. 15, 2021.
Alabama space museum names new CEO
December 15, 2020 GMT
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) A veteran NASA manager has been named chief executive of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, the state-owned museum said Tuesday.
The commission that oversees the attraction selected Kimberly Robinson to oversee the center, which serves as a visitor center for NASA’s nearby Marshall Space Flight Center and is home of Space Camp, which lets students and adults experience simulated missions in space.
Robinson, who worked for NASA for more than three decades, is NASA’s utilization manager for advance exploration systems and previously was the payload mission manager for Artemis I, the first integrated flight test of the Orion capsule, according to a statement by the museum.
U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville has new leader
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
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The Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission announced Tuesday that Dr. Kimberly Robinson has been chosen executive director and CEO of the museum.
Robinson is currently NASA’s utilization manager for advanced exploration systems and was previously the payload mission manager for Artemis I, the first integrate flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the Space Launch System rocket and the Exploration Ground Systems at Kennedy Space Center.
Dr. Kimberly Robinson was named executive director and CEO at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville on Dec. 15, 2020. (Submitted photo)