(As of January 2021, the Shuttle has been disassembled for repairs and restoration, which is expected to take years.)Īlso on the grounds are the Space Shot and G Force Accelerator, amusement park rides admirably repackaged by the Center as science education tools. It's displayed "Full Stack," meaning that it's mounted to its booster rockets and massive external fuel tank, which were the Shuttle parts overseen by the Marshall Space Flight Center. Behind the main museum building (admission only) is the even more impressive Pathfinder, an obscure test-model full-size Space Shuttle built in Huntsville in 1977. They're lured by the 363-foot-tall Saturn V moon rocket that stands outside - an exact replica built at considerable expense in 1999 (The 30th anniversary of the first moon landing). Von Braun, like Elvis, apparently never threw anything away, so his trove of relics is extensive indeed, even including his wacky office retirement cartoons.īut most visitors don't come to the Center to learn about an ex-Nazi. Space and Rocket Center for the public, and in return the Center devotes considerable space to von Braun, with exhibits such as the little red wagon he outfitted with rockets when he was twelve, and his entire office circa 1958, the year that NASA was created. Von Braun used his clout to create the U.S. to direct Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center, where many of America's rockets were built. Von Braun was a World War II German rocket genius, brought to the U.S. You can thank Wernher von Braun, who might've been the Elvis of Huntsville if he hadn't had a bad-PR employment history with Hitler.
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