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Huntsville, Alabama Official Group Tour Guide for the Huntsville/Madison County Hello Convention & Visitors Bureau HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA Plus! Official Field Trip Guide for Educational Escapes included! Hello! TABLE OF CONTENTS 03 Space to Play The Huntsville/Madison County 26 Space to Perform Convention & Visitors Bureau is 28 Voluntourism SPACE your one-stop shop for planning group visits to North Alabama. 30 Additional Activities Services and materials provided Space to Rest to you upon request by the CVB 36 are free of charge: contact in- 39 Space At Our Table formation, motorcoach greeting, customized itineraries, familiar- 44 Step-On Guides & Motorcoaches ization tours, maps & brochures, 46 Hub & Spoke photos & videos, site inspections, TO and welcome bags. 48 Find Your Way WE ARE A PROUD MEMBER OF THE American Bus Association Alabama Motorcoach Association National Tour Association TOUR THEMES Southeast Tourism Society Explore Student & Youth Travel The Rocket City’s diverse landscape and unique blend of Association cultures creates endless possibilities for groups of all types. Trainees in Mission Control at U.S. Space Camp®. Travel South USA » African-American Heritage U.S. Travel Association » Flavors of the South & Craft Beer is a free, STUDENTS CAN EXPERIENCE » Arts & Shopping Educational Escapes FUN-FILLED, EDUCATIONAL curriculum-based service that promotes fun » Agricultural & Ecological ACTIVITIES THAT COMPLEMENT » Foundations of Faith and exciting educational opportunities in SIX FIELDS OF STUDY: » Performance unique environments outside the confines of » Antebellum to Anti-gravity the classroom. Created through a partnership Pam Williams » Girlfriend Getaways & Mancations with community educators and the Tourism & Education » Voluntourism Sales Manager, educational directors at area attractions, » Experiential & Mystery Educational Escapes Coordinator Educational Escapes offers students the SCIENCE ART TECHNOLOGY 256.551.2204 » “Between the Mountains and Lakes” North 866.ESC2HSV (866.372.2478) Alabama Tour opportunity to immerse themselves in [email protected] 500 Church Street NW » Educational Escapes Field Trips “hands-on” learning experiences. More than Huntsville, AL 35801 » Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail just a break from the classroom, this will FACEBOOK-SQUARE @HuntsvilleCVB » “Sweet Home Alabama” Multi-City Tour Twitter-square @Go2HuntsvilleAL be a unique field trip experience that your » “Made in the U.S.A.” students will remember for a lifetime. MATH SOCIAL LANGUAGE STUDIES SPACE TO Play Bring out your inner U.S. Space child with unique & Rocket attractions and SPACE amazing adventures Center in Huntsville. One Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL 35805 | 256.837.3400 | 800.637.7223 | rocketcenter.com The world’s largest space museum features interactive exhibits that TO highlight the history of spaceflight as well as its future. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) is a Smithsonian Affiliate and the Official Visitor Center for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Experience the mesmerizing view of a National Historic Landmark – an authentic Saturn V rocket – one of only three Play in the world, located in the Saturn V Hall of the Davidson Center for Space Exploration. Journey through America’s Space Race and NASA’s plan to put man on the moon and the International Space Station, and get a glimpse of the future in commercial space ventures and the latest technological innovations. Groups can feel the powerful G forces of launch aboard Spaceshot, view world’s largest spacecraft collections. teams through immersive Corporate arti facts such as the Apollo 16 Space Camp students experience Space, Aviation, or Outdoor capsule, and experience breath- astronaut training simulators such Challenge experiences that build taking presentations in the as the 1/6th Gravity Chair and the individual skills, promote leadership INTUITIVE® Planetarium. From Multi-Axis Trainer. Include and enhance teamwork. Programs schools to college students or adult grandparents or other extended are customized to fit your team tour groups, a stellar experience is family members in this out-of-this- size and schedule and are generally waiting for you! The U.S. Space & world experience! Programs are offered year-round according Rocket Center is also home to Space three days with extended four-day to facility availability. Multiple-day Camp®, Aviation Challenge®, U.S. programs offered on select holiday schedules are available. All programs Cyber Camp®, and Space Camp weekends. include necessary materials, Robotics® programs. personalized flight suit, transportation, * CORPORATE SPACE Visitors experience and private meals. captivating presenta- FAMILY SPACE CAMP CAMP/AVIATION CHALLENGE tions in the INTUITIVE® Family Space Camp encompasses Look no further for first-class PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES Planetarium at the simulated mission training and professional development and Performance groups are welcome in U.S. Space & Rocket operations, rocket construction and incentive rewards programs. various locations by request. Center. on-site space history in one of the Develop leaders and strengthen QUESTIONS? ASK US! huntsville.org | 866.ESC2HSV | [email protected] 5 “ I HAVE LEARNED TO USE THE WORD ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ WITH THE GREATEST CAUTION. — WERNHER VON BRAUN * A star-filled view of the Saturn V mock-up outside the Davidson Center at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. 6 HUNTSVILLE/MADISON COUNTY CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU QUESTIONS? ASK US! huntsville.org | 866.ESC2HSV | [email protected] 7 SPACE TO Play SPACE TO Play U.S. Space & Rocket Center Alabama Constitution Hall Field Trips Historic Park & Museum 109 Gates Avenue, Huntsville, AL 35801 | 256.564.8100 earlyworks.com/alabama-constitution-hall-park The immersive educational camp programs place students in real-world context NASA’s Marshall Space Hear the whirl of the spinning wheel...smell the enticing aroma of fresh- allowing them to view mathematics and science as something more than just ly baked bread being prepared over an open fire...turn the great wheel an academic exercise. These subjects become tools to develop future careers as Flight Center lathe in the cabinetmaker’s shop...and hear the stories from Huntsville when Alabama first became a state. Alabama Constitution Hall Park scientists, engineers, teachers and astronauts. 866.ESC.2HSV | is built upon the actual site where 44 delegates gathered to forge the nasa.gov/centers/marshall way for Alabama’s statehood in 1819. Please contact EarlyWorks for Bus tours to Marshall Space Flight customized experiences. ULTIMATE FIELD TRIP a two-night, structured, educational simulated space missions. Aviation Center depart from the U.S. Your classroom curriculum comes adventure which includes a full his- Challenge® trainees spend an exciting Space & Rocket Center. MSFC, the alive when students enjoy the tory of the space program, astronaut and educational week in the great birthplace of the U.S. space program, Ultimate Field Trip at the U. S. simulators, a simulated shuttle mis- outdoors training like military fighter develops key space transportation Space & Rocket Center! The Rocket sion, model rocket construction and pilots as they plan missions and fly and propulsion technologies, Center houses more than 1,500 launch and an Intuitive™ Planetarium high-performance jet simulators. manages science aboard the artifacts from America’s space pro- presentation. The program concludes Space Camp Robotics® trainees International Space Station and gram, including an authentic Saturn with a graduation ceremony for the engineer the fu ture as they design, pursues scientific breakthroughs in V moon rocket. Bring your students trainees. Grades: 4-8 (Aviation track build and operate robots for land, sea space that will improve human life on for a unique and inspiring day full of also available) Length of course: 2 or air. U.S. Cyber Camp® includes Earth. These programs are available interactive simulators, exhibits and a nights activities such as building computers, on a limited schedule and are subject hands-on, STEM curriculum-based learning programming languages, to cancellation based on national ® science lab! New activities include SPACE CAMP , AVIATION and defending systems against cyber security alerts. ® ® the Intuitive™ Planetarium, Sea CHALLENGE , SPACE CAMP threats. The high school program TREK, DIVR+, and Scuba Diving. ROBOTICS, & US CYBER CAMP is college accredited. Grades: 4-12 Length of Course: Approximately 6 Length of Course: 5 days FIELD TRIP hours (including a boxed lunch) Trainees engage in simulated training INTERNATIONAL SPACE scenarios to learn leadership skills, Please visit spacecamp.com or STATION PAYLOAD OPERATIONS PATHFINDER teamwork, problem-solving and call 800.637.7223 for more INTEGRATION CENTER Pathfinder is a condensed version decision-making. Space Camp® information on camp programs, The Payload Operations Integration of the week long Space Camp® pro- trainees put their skills to the test as specialty camps, and educator Center is responsible for NASA’s gram. It focuses on math, science and they train to live and work in space programs. science experiments on board the space mission training. Pathfinder is and take command of their own International Space Station (ISS), and is in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The Payload Operations Center communicates with the astronauts on board the ISS on a daily basis and can remotely operate on-board science and technology experiments. There is
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