Gary Wicks
The air age in Huntsville began more than a century ago with Will
Quick's design and construction of a flying machine, which he
demonstrated in 1908 for patenting and manufacture. The space age began
in Huntsville a half century later with the advent of Wernher Von
Braun's Redstone Jupiter C rocket, which launched America's first
satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit in 1958. A decade later, Huntsville
was at the epicenter of the greatest technological achievement of the
20th century as the Saturn V rocket propelled humankind to the moon.
Nowhere in the world is the century's rapid advance of air and space
technology more apparent than in Huntsville. This unique evolution of
flying machines and space vehicles unfolds in this pictorial
documentary, including the dramatic growth of the research facilities
and community infrastructure that produced these remarkable inventions.
