{"id":4229,"date":"2019-04-18T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/why-youll-want-to-get-to-rocket-city-this-summer-to-celebrate-the-moon-landing\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:00:19","slug":"why-youll-want-to-get-to-rocket-city-this-summer-to-celebrate-the-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/why-youll-want-to-get-to-rocket-city-this-summer-to-celebrate-the-moon-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you\u2019ll want to get to Rocket City this summer to celebrate the moon landing"},"content":{"rendered":"
We\u2019re T minus three months and counting until the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.<\/p>\n
And over at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center<\/a> in Huntsville, Ala., they\u2019re planning a celebration worthy of the occasion.<\/p>\n Why Huntsville? Because that\u2019s where scientists developed the Saturn V rocket that carried Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong and his fellow space pioneers to the moon.<\/p>\n Fifty years after that historic day, the Rocket Center, home to Space Camp<\/a> and one of just three remaining Saturn V rockets, will host a series of epic events to honor the golden anniversary.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a car show featuring vintage vehicles from the Apollo era, a Space Camp Hall of Fame dinner to honor outstanding Space Camp alumni (still waiting on my invitation<\/a>!) and an attempt to break a Guinness World Record by launching 5,000 model rockets at the same time.<\/p>\n People from all over the world will travel to Huntsville this summer, and you can join them at the once-in-a-lifetime celebration. (But if you can\u2019t make it, keep reading to learn how you can still be part of the fun!)<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the plan.<\/span><\/p>\n