To The Moon

Huntsville’s Contribution to Space Exploration

For the first poster in my thesis project, I chose to highlight Alabama’s contribution to the moon landing, the Saturn V rocket. The Saturn V rocket, which put the first man on the moon, was developed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama by Dr. Werner Von Braun and his team. Huntsville is home to the US Space and Rocket Center, the largest space museum in the world. And Huntsville is still contributing to deep space exploration with the development of the Space Launch System, also at Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center. When it comes to Huntsville, the place loves space. The text itself is an excerpt from a speech on the nation’s space effort given by President John F. Kennedy at Rice University on September 12, 1962.