HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Saturday was the beginning of a two-day fundraiser to assist the creation of the Area Exploration Memorial.
As part of the brand new Rocket Park, the challenge goals to present credit score to everyone who helped form area exploration into what it’s immediately — particularly those that labored right here within the Rocket Metropolis.
“That is simply part of ensuring that we don’t lose that historical past and we protect the legacy of all of these those that got here into our neighborhood, that lived in the neighborhood, to make one thing like this attainable,” mentioned Madison County Fee Mac McCutcheon, who was in attendance. “It’s one thing very particular.”
Parker Counts has spent 4 a long time working for NASA, now serving as a guide for the Artemis program. He says one of many harder items of this challenge is simply monitoring down who all deserves their dues.
“We’re reaching out to all the present organizations in Marshall in addition to those that handed,” Counts says. “Many people have relationships to contractors and we need to get these names within the database.”
Counts added that tonight they had been in a position to get 23,000 of these names from Marshall Area Flight Middle, however is aware of there are nonetheless many others who had a hand in area packages.
Groundbreaking for the challenge was simply a few weeks in the past. It’ll be many months earlier than it’s completed, however the imaginative and prescient for the challenge is already crystal clear.
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