This Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) #002 was used by returning Apollo 12 astronauts Alan L. Bean, Richard Gordon, and Charles Conrad. The MQF was fabricated with an Airstream shell built on a customized platform, complete with living space and a medical diagnostic center. The MQF program was developed in reaction to fears about human exposure to possible Moon organisms unknown on Earth that could initiate an uncontrollable epidemic. Its initial use was by the Apollo 11 crew, the first humans to experience the Moon's environment. The crew stayed in the MQF while it was flown from the recovery aircraft carrier Hornet to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and then for several more days while at the center, for a total confinement of approximately 65 hours. When the Apollo 12 and Apollo 14 crews also exited the quarters healthy, the quarantine process was discontinued. A unit built for Apollo 13 was not used, due to its emergency return to Earth before a Moon landing.

At the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama features the desk and items from German-born rocket scientist and former director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, Wernher von Braun.

Huntsville, Alabama played an important role in the Nation’s space program in the 1950s. One of the exhibits at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville detailed the events and milestones including the first American satellite, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station. Here is part one of the exhibit from February 2010.

This picture of several space rockets was taken in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Launch Complex 39 Pad B at the Kennedy Space Center was built in 1966 for the Apollo program and later modified for the Space Shuttle Program. It was deactivated on January 1, 2007 and converted to accomodate Project Constellation, including three new 600 foot tall lighting mast towers. On October 28, 2009, the Ares I-X test flight successfully launched. With the cancellation of Project Constellation, NASA removed the rotating service structure and offered the pad and facilities to private space flight companies.

Here are pictures taken in April 2011.

Apollo 11, launched on July 16th, 1969 from Launch Complex 39A on a Saturn V rocket, was the spaceflight which landed the first humans on the moon. It was commanded by Neil Armstrong and piloted by Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. The lunar module landed on the moon July 20th, 1969. The first steps on the moon took place six and a half hours after the landing.

The Apollo/Saturn V Center at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida has on display a number of newspaper front pages announcing this historical moment in the United States Space program.

The Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida features eight rockets including: Juno I, Juno II, Delta, Mercury Redstone, Atlas-Agena, Mercury Atlas, Gemini - Titan, and Saturn IB.

This picture of Space Shuttle Endeavour waiting on launchpad 39A to for her scheduled liftoff on April 29th, 2011 was the closest I have…

A year ago this week, Space Shuttle Endeavour was on launchpad 39A waiting for her final mission. The first launch attempt of STS-134 scheduled for April 29th at 3:47pm was scrubbed at 12:20pm due to problems with two heaters on one of the orbiter’s auxiliary power units. Two weeks later, she launched on May 16th at 8:56 am.

Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Gregory H. Johnson, and Mission Specialists Michael Fincke, Roberto Vittori, Andrew Feustel, and Gregory Chamitoff delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station.