For an outsider, northern Alabama may seem an unlikely place for an aviation and aerospace center. But for those of us who know the history of Huntsville, aka Rocket City, as it’s been called since the 1960s, it makes perfect sense.
A popular pilgrimage site for aviation and space enthusiasts since the 1970s, Huntsville is known for being the birthplace of rocket and missile technology in the U.S. It’s here that the first rockets were developed that sent satellites into space and put men on the moon. At NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, located on the Redstone Arsenal Army base, scientists also designed modules for the International Space Station (ISS) and figured out how to propel the space shuttle.
