Talk:U.S. Space & Rocket Center/Archive 1

Unsectioned comments
Article seems no longer to be a stub. Agree? Wendell 00:23, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I agree, but i may be bais since i live in Huntsville..

Able is not buried at the center. Able died on the table at KSC during post-flight medical tests. Only Miss Baker was ever at the USSRC and was buried on site. The actual location of the burial site is unknown, but a marker is placed outside the main entrance

The Rocket Center is not operated by Marshall Space Flight Center or officially affiliated with NASA, though NASA does own and maintain some exhibits within the museum. The Rocket Center itself is actually run by the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission.

Saturn V pic
It's been several years since I was last in Huntsville, but the photo of Saturn V on the page isn't of the Saturn V I remember. I remember that the actual rocket that is on the National Register is laying down at the back of the rocket park. The article mentions a model Saturn V being errected next to the actual Saturn Ib that is located at the center of the rocket park near the fake moon landing. I changed the caption to indicate that the photo is of a the model, not of the actual rocket. Could someone please confim? 67.188.7.78 03:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Good catch as the caption was misleading. The article says that the Saturn V model is "near" the Saturn IB.  If you look at the Teraserver image on the page you can clearly see the Saturn V model on the far left of the image, while the IB appears closer to the middle.  I'm not so sure if that qualifies as "near" or not. Cjosefy 12:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Just to correct the discussion above, there is no Saturn IB model at the USSRC. Their Rocket Park contains a Saturn I, similar to the Saturn I on display in front of Building 4471 at MSFC's Rocket Park.  The Rocket Center does maintain a model of a Saturn IB, but it is located at a rest stop on I-65S near the Alabama/Tennessee border. -- 128.158.67.33 (talk) 17:39, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Saturn I v. IB
The Field Guide to American Spacecraft identifies this as a Saturn I, and even explains why it's not a IB. Is there a source that contradicts this? AllTheseWorlds 16:16, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It is a Saturn I block 2. I asked the good folks at the museum which one, but so far nobody I've asked knows.  -- 173.95.174.189 (talk) 02:01, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Largest Space Museum
The Space Camp website and promotional material name the USSRC the largest space museum in the country. If this is an adequate reference, it should be added to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.62.214.78 (talk) 05:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't know (yet) if it's been surpassed by the addition of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center to the National Air and Space Museum or perhaps additions at KSC. The claim does not appear on recent literature. -- ke4roh (talk) 19:04, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Research underway
I took pictures of all the newspaper and magazine articles in the Huntsville/Madison County Public Library's file on the museum and pictures of some of the brochures. I plan to organize the information and incorporate it in this article over time. -- ke4roh (talk) 19:07, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

A Few Historical Highlights - put together by USSRC staff - last entry is Davidson Center 2008. -- ke4roh (talk) 12:43, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Topics to research
I would like to use this section in a manner different from the typical talk page to keep track of research into specific events in the museum's history that would be helpful to the article. To that end, I will keep a list of items that I would like to find articles for, and upon finding these things, amend the list as more specific dates are found, and again to indicate where they were found (most likely local sources such as The Huntsville Times and Marshall Star): -- ke4roh (talk) 12:42, 16 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Moved to an article in my user space to avoid getting someone's knickers in a wad. -- ke4roh (talk) 14:01, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Picture captions
Hello, The previous editor of the picture captions had made a mistake, I have deleted the wrongly labeled section. If someone would like to take me up on my challenge and label all of them correctly, I will be their friend.

Bill.D Nguyen (talk) 02:29, 10 January 2012 (UTC)


 * If you know what there's an error, then why not fix it instead? (WP:SOFIXIT) -Fnlayson (talk) 05:51, 10 January 2012 (UTC)