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  • Redstone Missile

    Front: Redstone
    Back: Redstone Missile. Developed at Huntsville, Alabama's Redstone Arsenal, the Redstone is shown here being readied for launching at Cape Canaveral.
  • First Flight Configuration of the Saturn C-1

    Back: The first flight configuration of the giant Saturn C-1 rocket is seen at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, N.A.S.A. Huntsville, Ala. The C-1 will be capable of placing about 10 tons into low earth orbit.
  • Enterprise Being Unloaded from 747 Carrier

    Back: Enterprise being unloaded from 747 Carrier.
  • Enterprise Passing Marshall Space Flight Center Headquarters

    Back: Enterprise passing Marshall Space Flight Center Headquarters.
  • Enterprise's Home for 1978

    Back: Enterprise's home for 1978.
  • Space Shuttle Enterprise Lands at Redstone Arsenal Airfield March 13

    Back: Space Shuttle Enterprise lands at Redstone Arsenal Airfield March 13, 1978.
  • Preparations for Unloading Enterprise from 747 Carrier.

    Back: Preparations for unloading Enterprise from 747 Carrier.
  • Enterprise Passing a Saturn 1B

    Back: The Old and the New, Enterprise passing a Saturn 1B.
  • Scale Model of Apollo Saturn V

    Back: ALABAMA SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER, Tranquility Base, Huntsville, Alabama.
    Scale model of the Apollo/Saturn V moon rocket on exhibit at the World's Largest space exhibit.
  • Alabama Space and Rocket Center

    Back: ALABAMA SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER, Huntsville. Ala.
    The Earth's Largest Space Museum offers an unrivaled display of American rocketry. The Spacedome theater and a tour of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center complete a day of family fun and education. The center Is home of the United States Space Camp.
  • Alabama Space and Rocket Center

    Back: ALABAMA SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER
    Earth's Largest Space Exhibit, Tranquility Base, Huntsville. Alabama 35807.
    The Alabama Space and Rocket Center is the largest missile and space eihibit in the world. It was dedicated by the citizens of Alabama to those Americans who made it possible for man to walk on the moon and to explore the universe; and to the youth of America who will utilize space technology for the benefit of mankind.
  • Alabama Space and Rocket Center

    Front: ALABAMA SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER
    The AIabama Space and Rocket Center contains the world's largest collection of missiles, rockets, and space vehicles. A full scale Apollo Saturn V moon rocket it exhibited in a horizontal position and it one of the featured attractions on the 35-acre complex. The exhibition Center it owned and operated by the State of Alabama and is opened every day. Located west of downtown Huntsville on Alabama Highway 20.
  • Space Orientation Center

    Back: SPACE ORIENTATION CENTER, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama
    Unique, historically significant exhibits vividly portray the development of rocketry and space travel in the free-world missile production center.
  • Missile Strategy Computer

    Back: Missile Strategy Computer is one of the many audience participation exhibits at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center. Visitors may match their skills with this highly animated exhibit highlighting the various applications of missile defense systems. The Alabama Space and Rocket Center, America's largest missile and space exhibit is located west of Huntsville, Alabama on Highway 20.
  • Guided Missile Test Tower with Redstone Missile

    Back: GUIDED MISSILE TEST TOWER WITH REDSTONE MISSILE, REDSTONE ARSENAL, HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA
    This is the largest static firing test stand for rocket motors in the U. S., and possibly in the world. The huge Army facility, costing $12,000,000. towers 145 feet high-as tall as a 15-story building, and is built of reinforced concrete, with walls 48 inches thick. Static testing of a missile consists in locking the missile into place on the stand and firing it. The missile does not "take off", but as it strains against the mighty grip of the great tower its roaring engine can be studied for performance characteristics as it it were actually in flight.
  • Mississippi Test Facility

    Back: MISSISSIPPI TEST FACILITY, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, HANCOCK COUNTY
    This 200-foot-tall rocket test tower is one of three units and this particular stand is for static firing the S-ll (second stage) of the giant Saturn V. MTF is a division of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama.
  • "The State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes"

    Front: The State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, Huntsville, Ala.
  • Carnegie Library at Alabama A & M College

    Back: ALABAMA A&M COLLEGE, Normal, Alabama
    Carnegie Library is a two-story brick structure of colonial design. It has a capacity of 50,000 volumes and seating space for 236. The building contains two reading rooms, a reference room, a seminar room, reference and general stacks, and an office for the staff of the library.
  • Green Bottom Inn

    Front: Historic Huntsville
    Back: Historic Huntsville, Alabama. ALABAMA A & M COLLEGE.
    GREEN BOTTOM INN, one of Huntsville's earliest hostelries, was located on Meridian Pike on site now occupied by Alabama A & M. Built in 1815 by John Connelly, the inn attained widespread fame for its adjoining race track, over which many of the outstanding race horses of the period competed. Gen. Andrew Jackson, an avid follower of the sport, often stopped here to race his horses and fight his cocks. For many years the table where he dined was preserved.
  • Alabama A & M College

    Back: ALABAMA A & M COLLEGE, Normal, Alabama
    A partial view of the campus in the Fall. Organized in 1875 as the Huntsville Normal and Industrial School by William Hooper Councill, with 2 teachers and 61 pupils, it is now nationally recognized.

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