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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UOB_pathfinder-orbiter-historical_Huntsville-AL.html
Pathfinder is a test article of NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter, built by Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in 1977 to practice lifting and handling the future Orbiter vehicles. Made of scrap rocket parts steel beams and wood, the mockup's size, shap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UOA_nasa-u-s-geological-survey-historical_Huntsville-AL.html
The Mobile Geological Laboratory (MOLAB) was built as part of the development of NASA's Lunar Roving Vehicle(LRV) program. NASA engineers and scientists studied a number of different concepts for vehicles to use on the lunar surface. This rover in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UO9_u-s-army-pgm-19-jupiter-historical_Huntsville-AL.html
America's first Intermediate-range ballistic missile (RBM), the Jupiter Rocket was an outgrowth of Redstone rocket technology. It was developed at Redstone Arsenal under the technical guidance of German rocket engineers. First test-launched in Mar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UO8_ms-baker-monkeynaut-historical_Huntsville-AL.html
Able, an American-born rhesus monkey, and Baker a South American squirrel monkey, where launched on May 28, 1959, aboard an Army Jupiter missile. Launched in the nose cone, the two animals were carried to a 300-mile altitude, and both were recover…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UK0_pathfinder-historical_Huntsville-AL.html
Pathfinder is a 75-ton simulator which was used to practice lifting and handling the real Orbiters. It was originally built at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1977 as a stand-in for Space Shuttle Enterprise to fit-check the roads and facilities th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UJZ_t-38-talon-historical_Huntsville-AL.html
Since the 1960s, NASA astronauts have trained for the stresses of spaceflight in the high-altitude, two-seater, supersonic T-38 Talon. Developed by Northrop Grumman, the T-38 became the world's first supersonic jet trainer in 1961 when it entered …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UJY_main-engines-historical_Huntsville-AL.html
The Pathfinder's three main engines are real. The two lower engines powered the first flight of Columbia in 1981. The engine located at the top was used in ground test firings. At launch, the three Space Shuttle Main Engines (fed liquid hydroge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SGT_superconductivity-discovery_Huntsville-AL.html
A graduate student from The University of Alabama in Huntsville achieved a major advance in science at this site on January 29, 1987. He discovered that a material composed of Yttrium, Barium, Copper, and Oxygen would superconduct—show no el…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K0R_gulf-war-1991-war-on-terrorism_Huntsville-AL.html
(side 1) Gulf War-1991 I am Nathan Oscar Pardner, a M1A1 Tank Gunner. I came to into the Army in 1988 after a year in Junior College. I was assigned to the 2nd Battalion 33rd Armor of the 3rd Armored Division in Germany. I qualified as a Maste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K0Q_cold-war-global-1945-cold-war-germany-1945-1990_Huntsville-AL.html
(side 1) Cold War-Global 1945- I am Petty Officer Richard Williamson, Jr. I am proud that my dad served on the first nuclear powered fast attack submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN 571) which set all kinds of records in the 1950s for length of s…
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