HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA
Rocket City
(Official Seal of Huntsville)
(Official Logo of Huntsville)
A little about Huntsville
Huntsville is a city in northeast Alabama, known for its space and rocket technology, and is home to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command. Huntsville is also home to the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Alabama A&M University. The Saturn V Rocket, which took astronauts to the moon, was designed in Huntsville and lives in the Space and Rocket Center as an attraction that can be visited. The city is also known for the Cummings Research Park, which is the second largest research park in the United States, and the forth largest in the world[1].
Some notable people from Huntsville:
- Jimmy Wales, Co-Founder of Wikipedia [2]
- Destin Sandlin, Owner of the SmarterEveryDay Youtube channel that has >11 million subscribers [3]
- Wernher von Braun, a German rocket scientist who lived in Huntsville for 20 years, working for the United States Military as well as NASA[2].