West Point Society of the Tennessee Valley

West Point Pioneers in Space Exploration

Dear Graduate or Friend of West Point,

You are invited to attend the Dedication of West Point Bricks in the Apollo Courtyard of the United States Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama.  This dedication is to honor and recognize West Point's Pioneers in Space Exploration.  The Ceremony will begin at one o'clock in the afternoon of 7 March 2008.

Here is the central brick from the West Point Pioneers in Space Memorial at the Space and Rocket Center. Stay tuned for more images of the memorial in the Apollo Courtyard.

Central Brick

Bricks at Davidson Center to remind others of academy's space role

The second man to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, is a West Point graduate.

So are astronauts Frank Borman, Ed White and about 15 other men who have flown in outer space. At least another 20 West Point graduates were involved in the Explorer I and Apollo projects.

Read more at the Huntsville Times.

January 2008 will mark the 50th Anniversary of the United States in Space. Explorer I was launched by the US Army Ballistic Missile Agency via a Jupiter-C missile, which was a modified Redstone Rocket, from Cape Canaveral, FL on the 31st of January 1958.  The Army Ballistic Missile Agency was headquartered at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

Art Meier presents the check for the bricks.

The US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama will be marking this Anniversary with the dedication of the Saturn V Center.  The Center, which is on land donated by Redstone Arsenal, will be housing a Restored Saturn V, one of only three in existence, inside a newly constructed steel and glass facility that will be visible from Interstate Highway 565.  Adjacent is an upright full scale replica of the Saturn V and around this replica will be the Apollo Courtyard.