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My name is Daniel Rogers and I live in Huntsville, AL. aka "Rocket City". More than any other place, Huntsville can be considered the birthplace of space travel or at least American space travel. But due to the fact that von Braun and his core team came here in 1950, and shortly thereafter, Hermann Oberth, who is considered to be the father of space travel, you could say that Huntsville is where it all began.
Dr. von Braun and his team's progress was actually farther ahead in chronolgy and technology, than the Russians. However beauracrats in D.C. didn't let von Braun pursue his own plan as aggressively as he would have liked. According to one of Dr. von Braun's team members, that still lives here in Huntsville, they had the ability to put a sattelite into orbit in 1953 using the Redstone rocket. That would've beaten the Russians by four years. Unfortuanetly the U.S. government kept insisting on using the Navy's launch vehicle and sattelite called Vanguard. This turned out to be a failure, leading the U.S. government to turn to the Redstone and Huntsville, Al to quickly get the Explorer sattelite up in early '58, losing to the Russians, who launched Sputnik I in October of '57. Well the rest is history. Marshall Space Flight Center is now in charge of the new Space Launch Initiative which will give birth to the replacement for the aging STS Shuttle fleet. |
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