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The U.S. Space and Rocket Museum is a lovely museum in Huntsville, Alabama, operated as a nonprofit museum overseen by the State of Alabama. Visitors can explore "Earth's Largest Space Museum" and view exhibits related to the United States Space program, including preserved Saturn V, Juno II, Jupiter-C, and Mercury-Redstone rockets that traveled to space throughout the 20th century.
More than 1,500 permanent space exploration artifacts are on display throughout the museum, including spacecraft engines, military rockets, capsules, and engineering mock-ups. Exhibits trace the history of the famed Apollo program, along with major concepts related to rocketry and space travel technology. Bus tours explore nearby Marshall Space Flight Center's National Historic Landmark buildings, including the Redstone Test Station, where astronaut Alan Shepard tested aboard the Redstone Rocket.
1 Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL 35805, Phone: 800-637-7223, Map
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