I am not that great with history, but if I understand correctly, you can almost pinpoint the start of the Cold War to a few moments after World War II. Right at the end of that War, the Russians and Americans raced to a little area in Germany and plucked out their best scientific minds. I think both countries took whatever rocket scientists they could, promised not to hold that whole Nazi thing against them, and brought them to their countries.In American, many of those scientists hung out in the Huntsville Alabama area doing rocket stuff.
They still do a lot of rocket research there. They also have the really cool US Space and Rocket Center.
Check out their website to read about all of the cool space artifacts on display. They have many rockets there. In fact, as we drove up to the area, the site of huge rockets pointed to the sky is a little scary. It reminded me of some apocalyptic movie.
The center has every bit of information you might ever want to know about rockets and space exploration.
They also do "Space Camp" here. I thought that looked pretty fun. We did see a few groups of kids running around in blue uniforms. I wasn't sure if they appreciated what they were getting, but Space Camp looked fun to me!
http://www.spacecamp.com/museum/
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