Marshall Space Flight Center
About Marshall Space Flight Center
The Marshall Space Flight Center, located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. As the largest NASA center, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo program. Marshall has been the lead center for the Space Shuttle main propulsion and external tank; payloads and related crew training; International Space Station (ISS) design and assembly; computers, networks, and information management; and the Space Launch System. Located on the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, MSFC is named in honor of General of the Army George C. Marshall.
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According to Marshall Space Flight Center, he used to send animals into space on balloons — oh, no, sorry — he sent animals into space in his own homemade rockets and then they were recovered by a parachute.
from No Such Thing As A Fish - Extra Bits, 2016-12-30 at 00:07:24 · read transcript
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- Stirling · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 34.6508, -86.6728