A history of Redstone ArsenalHughes, Kaylene
The women who responded to “Rosie’s call” during the 1940s’ war years did all kinds of work. In 1942, the Kaiser shipyards opened in Richmond, California, becoming a major shipbuilding center for the war effort. A woman named Bethena Moore from Derrider, Louisina was one of thousands...
Dr. Wernher von Braun led the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) team at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, that designed the rocket that launched Explorer 1. After the satellite was confirmed to be in orbit, he characterized the event as a crucial beginning f...
Late during the Super Outbreak itself, another F3 hit the Redstone Arsenal and neighborhoods south of downtown. Just three people were killed in those four tornadoes combined. The lone exception was way back in 1920, when an F4 devastated the town of Lily Flagg, seven miles SE of the city...
African American rights were dismal. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.applied for a concealed carry permitafter his Alabama home was firebombed in 1956. The local sheriff denied the permit, deeming him “unsuitable.” One account noted that Dr. King possessed an“arsenal”before heembraced non-violenc...
06/16/2018 [-] NCAA settles CTE lawsuit filed by widow of Texas player 06/13/2018 [-] Lawsuit filed to protect pygmy sunfish in north Alabama 06/12/2018 [-] Class action lawsuit filed over Atlanta sidewalk conditions 06/04/2018 [-] Lawsuit filed in woman's death in Texas hotel...
The transfer of launch operations to the Cape coincided with the transfer of the Army's missile program from White Sands to a post just outside a north Alabama cotton town called Huntsville. Von Braun and his team arrived in April 1950. It was to remain his home for the next 20 years,...
Women working at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, 1940s. In Georgia, Eloise Strom, a young mother of two young boys, rose every morning before dark and rode an hour and a half in a car pool with five other women to go to work at the aircraft plant in Marietta. Some worked in the...