The U.S. Space & Rocket Center officially opened on this date in 1970! We are celebrating our birthday and 51 amazing years of inspiring the future by looking at how Huntsville came to be the Rocket City.
We’d love to connect with you on social!
LIKE us on FACEBOOK! / rocketcenterusa
FOLLOW us on TWITTER! / rocketcenterusa
FOLLOW us on INSTAGRAM! / rocketcente. .
Visit our website: rocketcenter.com
Nice Video of Huntsville, the Redstone Arsenal and the Marshall Space Flight Center. This was my Hometown from January 16 / 1980 until February 17 / 1981 (one year, one month and one day), during my stay for a training course at the US Army for the anti aircraft missile system Nike Hercules. I was a soldier at the German Air Force for 12 years (1977 til 1989).
I love this
Lived here almost 20 years and never knew the history of the Arsenal. Thanks for the video!
Proud to live in proximity to Huntsville. Have spent lots of time there. They say Huntsville is poised to surpass Birmingham as the most populous city in Alabama.
I do believe it has surpassed it now
@@davidbice9009 i has.
@@davidbice9009 It has in terms of Metro population
We lived in Huntsville from Fall 1968 to Fall 1979. Although we have been away from there for 43 years, we are still homesick for the place. Our son was born there, we absolutely LOVED living there and wish we could go back. Not surprised Huntsville was named the #1 place to live in the USA.
#huntsvillealabama #TheRocketCity
Houston: that’s debatable
If it wasn't for the arsenal and Marshall spaceflight Huntsville would still be a tiny farm town
So lucky to have lived in Huntsville during this time.
I was born in 93 and have lived in Hazel Green a small town outside of Huntsville my entire life and I feel so lucky to have been born here it's been pretty amazing seeing the growth of Huntsville as I've gotten older such a good thing to live in I just hope it doesn't get too big I think where we're at right now is about perfect
I still remember when we didn't even have a Walmart in Hazel Green pretty much had a McDonald's and that was it
At the 00:59 mark, you're showing a building that wasn't built until 1964.
Please learn how long a tie should be.
I believe it started in the 1960s.
That tie bro. it's so bad it's good.
The N-A-S-A... lol bruh, just call it NASA like everyone else..
This guy used to watch the MTV too
Yeah the narrator had me laughing so hard, he also pronounced Wernher von Braun's last name as "Brown"
99% of this video does not answer the question in the title "why Huntsville". There's a million space race videos on KZhead.
They left out the part where the Smoky mountains will protect the rest of the country if north Alabama gets hit by nuke...
Because we know you didn’t 😂
USSR beat USA to the Space Race
Not at all commie 😂
@@chadwells7562 oohhhh yeah, read some history books
@@DmitriyChaikovskiy The USSR had some early initial successes because the US developed a civilian space flight program for excellent political reasons. Then the US outclassed them in every respect, and if you compare the former USSR with the US in space technology and presence today there isn’t even a competition.
@@chadwells7562 When the Soviets launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, in October 1957, it set off alarm bells in the Eisenhower administration and created intense fear and anxiety among the US public that the Soviet Union had surpassed the technological achievements of the United States. First satellite, first live creature in space, first human in space, first space walk, landing on Venus, USSR was way ahaed back then, now yes USA is number one
@@DmitriyChaikovskiy The space race was a marathon. If you exhaust yourself to get ahead in the first mile you’ll lose by mile 26.2. The US wasn’t alarmed by early Soviet progress because we thought the US was incapable of identical feats. The US was alarmed because the Soviets demonstrated technical capabilities beyond what we thought they had. The US had been capable for some time before the Soviet launches of making suborbital flights, but Eisenhower wanted a civilian program to do it because we needed overflight rights over national airspace. The Redstone program at that period added sandbags to their test vehicles to prevent spaceflight and media attention. For a small mass like Sputnik those rockets probably could’ve achieved orbital capability as well. The Soviets had no similar political compunctions. A demonstration of Soviet exhaustion was in the failure of the N-1 moon rocket program. The rushed nature and repeated failure exhausted Soviet political will to continue and effectively ceded the lead of the space race to the US. The Soviets and their brilliant engineers should be commended for their incredible achievements done with far less resources than the USA, but ultimately they were always going to lose due to the second class nature of their economy and industrial base compared to the US, especially once the computer age went into full swing.