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U.S. Space & Rocket Center

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Open today at 9:00-17:00
Recommended sightseeing time:1-2 hour
Address:
1 Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL 35805, United StatesMap
Phone+1 800-637-7223
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Since the establishment of the American Space Rocket Center here in the 1950s, Huntsville has become a world-renowned place. It was in Huntsville that Dr. Weiner von Braun led a group of scientists to design and test a series of rocket parameters, and eventually sent humans to the moon. The spirit of exploration and adventure of that era still lingers in every corner of Huntsville. Founded in 1982, the US Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama is an educational public welfare project with space simulators and training equipment designed by the US Space Agency (NASA) for the training of American astronauts. Every year, thousands of students from all over the world come here to participate in summer camps to experience the life of exploring astronauts and various knowledge about the space capsule, about the exploration of launch vehicles, etc. ~ In the space camp, I personally experienced the walking and lunar walk of the simulated space capsule. It’s so fun. There are moon meteorites brought by Apollo 12 in Space Camp. Space fans come to Alabama to punch in...

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