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