![]() Meanwhile, occupying a huge room which nobody bothered to stop in, there was an incredibly tacky film of no relevance with a 'motivational' message and an insufferable song. ![]() Too many screens or speakers were playing too many documentaries at the same time. The display on Von Braun was small and the films were too long and there was no place to sit down and enjoy the documentaries. The site is historically important because of Werner Von Braun and his rockets. Their teachers were not better, occupying entire corridors with their pupils seating on the floor and not letting walk by other visitors. What does a climbing wall have to do with space? There were groups of badly behaved and non-supervised school children everywhere who seemed to think the place was a theme park where they could run and yell at their pleasure. Signs and explanations for artifacts and rockets were missing, artifacts were piled together to make space for a climbing wall for children, for example. Rides and simulators for children take priority over authentic historic artifacts like the Apollo 16 spacecraft, the V-2 rocket or even the massive (and recently restored) Saturn V rocket, which lays at the end of the garden as if it wasn't (probably) one of the most important displays. After visiting Kennedy Space Center and Johnson Space Center, it is shocking to see the state of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. ![]()
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