Power to Explore: A History of Marshall Space flight Center 1960-1990

Since its inception in 1960, the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama has been at the center of the American space program. The Center build the rockets that powered Americans to the moon, developed the propulsion system for the space shuttle, and managed the development of Skylab, the Hubble Space Telescope, and Spacelab. It is one of NASA's most diversified field Centers, with expertise in propulsion, spacecraft engineering, and human systems and multitudinous space sciences.