U.S. Space and Rocket Center - Huntsville, AL

[@Change-7815]

The wrist watch on the wall is the exact hour minute and second Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. Went to Space Camp and Aviation Challenge 6 times when I was younger. Holds a special place in my heart

[@dannymartin1114]

"Possessed by some sort of moon ghost" just made my whole day haha.

[@projectorguy1]

Glad you visited us! Between April and November, on Thursday evenings, they have a Biergarten with food, drink, and live swing music under the "real" Saturn V (the one inside). Its a lot of fun, and dog friendly even! I will always remember dining under the Moon rocket while listening to the band play "Fly Me to the Moon" :-)

[@yo-yobo-bo7284]

I have been trying to get you or Adam the woo to come here for years this is my hometown

[@kp6068]

Me too

[@willgarner886]

Same

[@mrmighty4eyes253]

I remember coming here 12 years ago in 6th grade for space camp. Thank you for bringing back wonderful memories :)

[@flashrobbie]

I love you Pluto. When Sheldon Cooper told off Neil deGrasse Tyson about demoting you, he spoke for me too.

[@hannahllewellyn163]

Yep I saw this one 😄 now am here at same place as sheldon cupper 2021 rocket 🚀 center 2021

[@j.a.r.family2576]

I'm from Decatur. Happy to see people visiting and enjoying it.

[@adventuresofmoonman]

I went there on a field trip back in elementary school. Loved it then and love it now. Thanks Jacob

[@QuiltyExperience]

I visited Huntsville for space camp about 10 years ago! Great experience. It was my first time visiting the US. I really fell in love with the South while I was there.

[@thegood9]

One of the best museums in the country for Aerospace. And Huntsville is an underrated, secret gem.

[@figmentsdream]

Went to space camp here back in 6th grade, one of the best times I’ve ever had

[@DGaryGrady]

Great stuff as usual, Jacob. By the way, the "V" in Saturn V is a roman numeral, so it's actually pronounced "Saturn Five." The last Saturn V launch was in 1973 (May 14) when it carried Skylab into orbit. The third Apollo 11 astronaut was Michael Collins, the guy who remained in the Command Module in orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin actually landed on the Moon.

[@maggieanderson3778]

I KNEW i t was a Michael. That's hubby's name.

[@purpleku7768]

Kids these days....😤😤😤

[@Wolfie54545]

Also the Saturn Five did not put the ISS in orbit. It was built by the space shuttles.

[@DGaryGrady]

@@Wolfie54545 Quite correct! But Skylab, an earlier single-module space station, was launched by the last flight of a Saturn V. There was a second Skylab that was never launched and can be seen at the Air and Space Museum in Washington. The Space Shuttle didn't enter service until 1981, and construction of the ISS in orbit began in 1998.

[@Wolfie54545]

@@DGaryGrady Yes I am aware of Skylab. But he said the ISS. Also I am obsessed with space shuttles. You don’t have to explain to me. I already know.

[@dawsoncantrellmydude]

Man, I’m so happy Carpetbagger finally went to the Space and Rocket Center. It’s very close to where I live, so I’ve been multiple times and it’s always a blast.

[@robertyoung7962]

Thanks for the good content during a crises

[@hopehayes7131]

I went to Space Camp there in the 1990's :D. Lots of happy memories. Thanks for sharing!

[@NyxMoonTV]

This is my home town. I grew up in Huntsville, Alabama for 14 and a half years. I remember going to the Space and Rocket Center during it's Star Wars event back in the late 2000s and I remember when they had an event on the Ice Age. It's an honor to have you visit my home town of Alabama.

[@aeroslayer7676]

Man I loved that Star Wars event. Still have many photos from back then

[@Rickyinez]

I remember going to space camp it was absolutely wonderful🛸👽🚀🌠. I lived in Huntsville Alabama for 15 years. That's my old stomping ground.

[@reighmurray7561]

I’m just glad someone else knows about Hello Kitty not actually being a Kitty

[@orange-knightytcslendytubb6095]

Me and my sis used to watch it all the time.

[@kendallnixon6265]

Me and my little sister went there when my cousin was on the field trip with her school. It's been years since we visited, but I always have the memories there.

[@imthebossofme63]

I’ve been here. I was cool to see up close some of the things we watched on TV when I was a kid.

[@nathanbugg3221]

Back when I was teaching, we took our 6th graders there. Went there 4 years in a row. Was fun to remember this thanks for another great viedo.

[@willgarner886]

I went on my 6th grade field trip

[@lindak1965]

So glad you came here to visit North Alabama sure hope you come back soon Carpet Bagger I'm a really big fan.

[@JaySubii]

I just noticed the date you went.. Literally right before all the lock-downs! Good timing

[@madisonhooks5912]

I live in Huntsville and pass this place almost everyday! I would’ve love to know you were in town. Your one of my favorite youtubers

[@willgarner886]

565 sux

[@iwantmyvanback]

Sweet! Another great attraction. Thanks Jacob!

[@rickhenry1833]

So cool a place to visit ! I still have my NASA Space Coffee Mug from 2005 when I visited ! Thanks Jacob !

[@lorih2924]

Cool fun and educational. Thank you for checking it out

[@sheilaoshea6350]

Just wanna say I Love Love Love your videos! Thank you for all you do! Much love and support ❣️

[@TheSWolfe]

Apollo Mania, indeed! As a child, I had a stuffed-animal Snoopy astride a rocket w/sewn-on msg saying, "Fly Me to the Moon, Apollo 11! Another toy lost to time I wish I still had.

[@bo12white34]

I worked there as a security guard and was fired for fishing in the pond at the aviation challenge area .... I also slept behind the von Braun monitors in the small hallway . HARD WORK

[@Mr__Pickle]

Finally came over to my neck of the woods. Glad to see.

[@GothMamaASMR]

I worked there for 4 years. My favorite job!

[@nicholedecker2979]

I personally know one of the men who helped build the space buggy, his name is Sumner Stewart Loomis and he designed the buggy wheels. The other members of the team said they wouldn’t work so he went home worked all night mounted them on his bike and rode to NASA and showed them that they would work🤓! So they put them on the moon buggy. This man, Mr. Loomis, was building radios out of the junk from the local radio station where his dad worked and built a rocked for good bike so he could race cars. All before he was a teenager! He invented many more things and is now in his 90's and writing a book.😊 thank you for the video! I've been past but wasn't able to stop but one day we'll go there!

[@robclark3095]

I remember visiting the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in 1999. I was in the Army during that time and my parents were visiting and we decided to drive there to see it. I got an "astronaut cat" coffee mug from there. The handle broke off of it earlier this week. Was one of my favorite coffee mugs.

[@craigmonteforte1478]

In the early 1970s i had all the GI Joe Space related items as they were a handm e down from a older cousin who had been to Kennedy Space Center year s prior on a trip to Florida after Walt Disney World opened I trmember looking at their pictures. On how cool both places were

[@MysticPachino]

The space office is also a bedroom there was a sleeping bag attached to the wall

[@lgcrazygamer6816]

I went there on a Field trip at my school it was Soo much fun!!!

[@amyyoshikawa7698]

Hi Jacob awesome vlog at the rocket and space center 👍🏻

[@AverageMe]

Awesome video! Thanks!

[@MikeMatthews]

In 2007 I lived in Huntsville and went here. I found Matt Besser of USB on My Space and told him I loved that astronaut skit. He replied "Those darn astronauts!"

[@captainra]

Been there 4 times love this place. Took my niece and she loved the rides in back.

[@gameaddict9257]

I was at the college near that museum (picking up my sister after they shut it down) less than a week ago! That museum looks so cool. I wish we could have gone in

[@paidinfull5950]

As someone living 45-60 minutes from Huntsville and working in the area a lot, we went on a school trip but that’s it. Locally we all don’t take advantage of things others love to do. We don’t go here, I live 15 minutes from the guntersville lake which is on a list of best lakes, amazing spot and we don’t go much around here and everyone complains there’s nothing to do here.

[@IAM-zv9vk]

This is my home town and there was a few times in high school that I stopped by here just to buy the dehydrated ice cream bar from the gift shop just to satisfy my craving for it

[@Wolfie54545]

Fun Fact about space shuttle Pathfinder: Pathfinder was the second test shuttle used for spatial testing when using Enterprise would be too expensive. Pathfinder also spent a year in Japan.

[@zerxilk8169]

I enjoyed that very much. Thank you.

[@theweakestlink2278]

Grew up in Alabama. Went there many times as a kid. It's a pretty cool place.

[@LPspiceolife]

A lot different than I remember, was there at Space Camp back in the late 80's.

[@Redfern42]

Living in Birmingham from 1970 to 77 I had the opportunity to visit the Space Center a couple of times. "Miss Baker" was still living (and quite lively) at that time, bouncing around her enclosure within the main concourse. I "think" she was alone when I visited, but I honestly can't recall. So, she passed in 1984, huh? I've occasionally wondered how long she lived. Your video answered that question. When you showed the first collection of space themed toys and such, I wondered if there might have been some "Major Matt Mason" items around. When you cut to a different topic, I thought, "Meh, I guess not." So it came as an even sweeter surprise when you zoomed upon a few later in the video. Major Matt Mason was a series of action figures and vehicular accessories initially inspired by concepts considered by the space program. The figures themselves were 6 inch tall "bendy" dolls, a bit like the "Gumby and Pokey" toys, and their suit design was based upon those of the Mercury program with "pleated" joints. They were my favorite toys of the latter 80s with only my Remco brand battery driven "Lost in Space" Robot a serious contender for my attention. Funny you should show that section of SkyLab that crashed in Australia. During the first of my two visits, I witnessed a crew welding components to the main "shell" in one of the nearby assembly buildings, steadily constructing it for its eventual launch on May 14, 1973. Figuratively, you saw its "corpse"; I saw it "gestating". Sincerely, Bill

[@kp6068]

I was born in Huntsville and still live there and it’s so weird seeing people on KZbin go there like I’ve been there like 50 times and I’m only 13 and the moon shot is sooooooo fun they actually just changed it to the moon shot it used to be the space shot and they just added 5 more feet to it

[@katielucas234]

You were so close to me!! I live just a couple of hours from there in Columbiana Alabama. Nice to see somewhere I'm familiar with.

[@kayscrystals8241]

When you said “The International Space Station” I said “Yep The Good Old ISS” 😂🤣

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I was wondering when you would visit this place, it's very interesting. They tried to cancel Pluto, hilarious

[@_smexy.biches.editz_6849]

I went to space camp here! ❤️

[@Revtommy2tone]

Nice job, Jacob.

[@killianredcastle]

Attended Space Camp there in March 1987. I'm guessing they've expanded. Our "Mission" was 4 hours long - shuttle launch, satellite deployment, return to earth. Half the team on board the other half in mission control. Then we switch and do it all again the next day. Good times. Would love to tour the simulators today.

[@CAROLINATONY]

Wow! Can't believe I actually beat you to an attraction. I filmed there last summer. I want to go to space camp

[@conniegoldthwait1463]

MOON GHOST!! LOL!!,That's so hilarious to think about, now. How amazing how things have changed because of Science and technology. 🔎🔬📡🔭🌎

[@jamiedalrymple3749]

Wow so interesting.thanks for sharing ☺

[@ThatBoyKin-]

I've lived in Huntsville Alabama pretty much all my life up until my teen years It probably only looks like 20 minutes away from that Space Center and I've only been there at least once that I can remember, and that huge rocket in the center use to be a game with my family, whoever saw it first on the highway after coming from a very long trip would get $5

[@macktheknife4896]

That was really cool jacob.i think that's a must see for me

[@talleygill6753]

please please please come to the Air and Space museum in Northern Va

[@jerrymcghee6788]

You got me with "Shemp"! :D :D :D

[@Segafishy]

An Omega wristwatch was the first time piece to be used on the moon and pretty much became the space watch because of it, theres various special editions to represent each Apollo mission although these days its more Casios you'll see in Space.

[@doctorwhofan6340]

Hey I've been thier. I can't remember much about it since I was young then but I do remember going thier though.

[@wickedwitchnik]

I went there on a field trip in high school and some of my friends got kicked off the motion ride for standing up 😂 Great memories.

[@ltrich50]

I went there in 1989. Cool place.

[@JoshSmith-oz1uf]

UCB! That's old school... Exit 57, the vacant lot and strangers with candy, my college days!

[@Matthew-gk6in]

The monkey grave reminds me of the grave of HAM at the International Space Hall of Fame in Alamogordo, New Mexico. HAM spent a lot of his life at nearby Holloman Air Force Base.

[@MICKEY4356]

My grandfathers brother worked there in the 1960's. He said his work was secret.

[@savannahdriver8609]

I live in Alabama the space and rocket center is a place all schools make a school field trip at some point it’s a pretty awesome place so glad you visited it you should do mentone next !

[@_IcyBun_]

@Savannah Driver i went for summer camp and vaguely remember the field trip

[@tizonrenzlouie5267]

i love your videos broo, thanks

[@qdood]

Baggerism of the day: "I wonder if they actually ate Moon Pies... on the Moon?" "Baggerism" copyright 2020, all rights reserved

[@kookiemonster9222]

😀👋🏻

[@brittanybaldridge2188]

"Meditative body crushing"

[@Call_sign_Benobi_1993]

Them training suits that got seconds of coverage was the training suits from the fatal Apollo 1 mission

[@Frankie343]

Good one Jacob 😎👍🏻

[@mikaylabaird1914]

This place looks “space” d out!! 👩‍🚀 🚀 🌙

[@thomasackerman5399]

@ around 10:55 The Shuttle orbiter is not a real one. Pathfinder as it is now called, was formerly a dimension and mass correct mockup built from steel and wood that was used to practice lifting and stacking operations in the Vehicle Assembly Building to make sure that procedures and clearances were good before risking the real orbiters themselves. It was also placed on a transport rig and moved horizontally along causeways, roads, processing facility and runways to also make sure that things were good before risking an actual spacecraft on them. Originally Pathfinder barely looked like an orbiter in shape and had little detail. But in the early 1980s the America-Japan Society purchased the mockup and paid Teledyne Brown to modify it extensively to look as it does today. That being said, the External Tank it sits on now and the SRBs are real. That tank saw use early in the Shuttle program attached to a test article orbiter aft fuselage with real engines in it and was mounted on a stand not far from where you were to make sure all the systems worked. The SRBs are leftovers from the program that were either too damaged for reuse or were donated spares. The casings of the SRBs were a leftover from an abandoned attempt to build super lightweight casings that could increase the Shuttle's payload to orbit.

[@zidancetaskforce]

I love that rocket 🚀 center

[@monicakruczaj2244]

FYI. The actual space suits are made by a company named ILC which is located to Delaware.

[@mindlessghetto]

Fun Fact! At 9:35 that is where the astronauts keep their medical/urine samples and it has to be frozen at -90 degrees! Also when the astronauts do put the samples in they have to do it in less than 60 seconds just so the cold won’t come out!

[@diamondback662]

The Omega Speedmaster is the watch worn by the Astronauts on Apollo 11 and Pretty much is the official Space watch worn by all Astronauts since Gemini. Buzz was the only one wearing his when walking on the Moon as Neil left his on the lunar module. Many of them can be seen in Museums all over the country.

[@Cherocana]

“Mighty space beard” 😂

[@jerrymcghee6788]

He also worked for Eisenhower! :)

[@frog24get]

Such an awesome place!

[@chriswilliams6612]

go to Sauta cave in Jackson county, AL, close to huntsville. bat caves are great

[@CAROLINATONY]

That gaint watch was a gift from the gaints on the moon

[@melissawinstead8701]

Cool museum!

[@TheJennyWalaShow]

Thumbs up... Good educational video.

[@baylinwilson6438]

The space shuttle outside is actually made of wood that was used for an exhibition in Asia

[@robertholl1974]

Welcome to my home town

[@frankortolano5886]

Excellent

[@childofanolddeadgod1278]

OH MAN I WAS HOPING YOU'D COME HERE! Also the rocket you can see inside that's in bits you can see is real! The big one outside it the model of it! Also someone sadly died on the G Force ride. And my aunt used to work there and she'd always say during the night she'd hear talking and people walking around. Not in like a creepy way, just a matter of fact way. Edit: he didn't actually die in the main part, he was down below in some of the inner workings.

[@napaxx1535]

ah sticking out the corona! stay safe, man!

[@kp6068]

I was born in Huntsville and still live there and it’s so weird seeing people on KZbin go there like I’ve been there like 50 times and I’m only 13

[@slicingonions4398]

There actually is gravity in space, the reason they can float and use the upside down treadmill is because the space station is constantly falling but it's going fast enough that it will continue to circle the earth and not actually hit. It's like you're constantly falling without ever landing

[@cartercasey8149]

I just went there for space camp and it was awesome I got to be the pilot of the space shuttle simulator

[@_IcyBun_]

@Carter Casey dude the food was amazing wasnt it! but the beds needed work

[@baylinwilson6438]

The suits were the back up suits for the tree astronauts that died in the Apollo 1 fire

[@retrob9346]

Hope everyone stays safe god bless 🙏🙏

[@billsummy2412]

TOO COOL !

[@justinhaas7065]

We need to have that mobile quarantine now