This magnificent natural spring long known to the Indians brought the first settler into Madison County and the village of Huntsville of 1816 was the result. It is just under the hill from the Court House and the heart of town." On the back is an...
"'The Space Capital of the Universe.' Shown Here Are The Former Madison County Courthouse, Big Spring, Oaklawn Home, Redstone Missile, The Saturn #1 Space Vehicle."
"This was a watering spot for Indians and later pioneers heading West, and it was this important watering place (now preserved in a park) that was the cause for Huntsville founding a century and a half ago. It was near this spot in Huntsville that...
"Saturn's first test stand was built in 1956. This facility has played a key role in several of the nation's best known rocket programs - Redstone, Jupiter, Juno II, Saturn I booster and the F-1 engine. Shown in the test stand when this picture was...
David Wilson, a college student who works in Marshall Space Flight Laboratories, Huntsville, Ala., during the summer, shows a veteran space center employee the Mars survival capsule that he built when he was a 17-year-old high school student. The...
"Nine-story structure in foreground is the Central Laboratory and Office Building, 4200. Engineering and Administrative Building, 4201, right and the Project Engineers Building, 4202, left, are the remaining structures in the complex. The Central...