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segregation. Also during this time, Optimist Park was opened at
Oakwood Road and Meridian Street where games by the Birmingham
Black Barons and other Negro League teams played. This was one of
the few baseball parks in the Nation open to all races that served as a
practice field for Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays and other African
American baseball legends. The space and missile efforts in Huntsville
have always been engineered by a multitude of racial and ethnic
backgrounds. In order to build something as complex as the Space
Shuttle or the Space Lab it takes not only excellent technical
knowledge, but a great deal of unity and openness to other fields of
expertise which are often found in countries outside of the USA.
The Present
Huntsville (also called the Rocket City) is
currently a medium sized community of
about 250,000 people (including the
surrounding Madison county) and is known
internationally as the “Space Capital of
America” because of our “US Space &
Rocket Center Museum” and “Space Camp”
for kids. The Space museum is a memorial
to the US and world space exploration,
containing the world’s most comprehensive
collection of rocketry. It is the world’s
largest space attraction and Alabama’s
largest tourist stop. Displayed outside, as
you pass the museum on Interstate 565, is an actual Space Shuttle with
fuel booster, a large sky-scraping Saturn 5 rocket, and a SR-71 Black
Bird airplane (A-12 Oxcart) that flew over mach 3 speed from New
York to London in less than 2 hours.
Space Camp, which is connected with
the museum, is where kids come from
all over the world for weeks at a time
to learn in a fun hands-on way about
science, math and space technology.
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