Usa, huntsville, alabama, 11 00 a. M. On wall street. And squawk alley is live good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with leslie picker, mike santoli at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange jon fortt is on assignment, Morgan Brennan is in huntsville. The resurgence of rocket city, usa. Morgan reporter hey, carl, thats right. With a population of fewer than half a million residents in huntsville, alabama, one could be forgiven if they dont realize how significant this area has been to modern american history. Before the 1950s, it was watercress capital of the world. The army moved a Ballistic Missile program here in the 1950s, into the 1960s. Nasa was established the Marshall Space Flight center, began to develop rockets for major Space Programs like apollo, and that legacy has continued all the way into today. Theres Something Like 400 aerospace and Defense Companies operating in the huntsville, alabama area today part of the reason this is called rock
JMU Rocketry, a group of senior engineering students working to complete their capstone, recently qualified for the NASA Student Launch competition. The group, the first to represent JMU in the