( Huntsville also has schools named for Roger Chaffee, Ed White, and the lost space shuttles: Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School, Ed White Middle School, Challenger Middle School, and Columbia High School )

The Council also operates service centers in Anniston, Huntsville, Gadsden, Florence and Tuscaloosa.

Huntsville Hospital is the regions referral center and also serves as North Alabama's level one trauma center.

The city is included in the Huntsville Metropolitan Area and is also included in the merged Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.

The center also contains the Huntsville Operations Support Center ( HOSC ), a facility that supports Space Shuttle launch, payload and experiment activities at the Kennedy Space Center, ISS launch and experiment operations.

Several support contracting firms were also involved in the programs ; the largest of these was Brown Engineering Company ( BECO, later Teledyne Brown Engineering ), the first high-technology firm in Huntsville and by this time having some 3, 500 employees.

During the mid-19th century, Huntsville was also the home to Mount Pleasant College.

It was also known as " Huntsville.

Its villages include Huntsville ( also in Jackson Township ), Lehman, Meeker, and Silkworth.

The town also has an Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League team called the Huntsville Otters, which has had players move on to major junior A in the Ontario Hockey League.

Huntsville also has a large soccer community, run by the Huntsville Soccer Club with over 1, 000 participants in total.

Huntsville International Airport, also known as Carl T. Jones Field, is an airport located 9 miles ( 14 km ) southwest of the central business district of Huntsville, a city in Madison County, Alabama, United States.

In June of 1967, Eastern Airlines introduced a new route they called " The Space Corridor " that linked Huntsville with important aerospace centers in St. Louis and Seattle and also with the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

United Airlines was also cognizant of the importance of Huntsville to the NASA space program and accordingly introduced twice daily nonstop Boeing 727-100 jet service to and from Los Angeles ( LAX ), another important aerospace center.

United also operated the French-manufactured Sud Aviation Caravelle VI-R twin jet from Huntsville on a route to Knoxville, Pittsburgh and Cleveland at this same time.

Southern Airways also served Huntsville and grew to have a significant presence in the market.

American also flew Boeing 727-200 and McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jets from Huntsville to Nashville in the late 1980's and early 1990's when the airline operated a large connecting hub located in this Tennessee city.

He was also member of the Huntsville Scottish Rite bodies and a recipient of the Knight Commander Court of Honor ( KCCH ).

Prior to 1999, the station also broadcast on channel 11 to the Muskoka and Parry Sound districts of Ontario from the CKCO-TV-4 transmitter near Huntsville.

In 1969, the legislature created the University of Alabama System and elevated UAB to the status of an autonomous institution within the system, which also included UA ( in Tuscaloosa ) and the University of Alabama in Huntsville ( UAH ) in Huntsville.

* WZDX-DT2, a television station licensed to Huntsville, Alabama, United States, also known as WAMY-TV

Originally known as " Rodgersville ", it took its name from Andrew and Patience Rodgers of South Carolina who moved into the area and purchased at a public land sale in Huntsville on May 3, 1818.

Huntsville was well known for its commerce producing salt, coal mines, hemp rope, and tobacco.

Huntsville was named after a long hunter known only by the surname " Hunt.

Canseco started the 1985 season with the Class-AA Huntsville Stars and became known as " Parkway Jose ", for his long home runs ( 25 in half a season ), that went close to the Memorial Parkway behind Joe Davis Stadium.

Les Stroud, a Canadian musician and survival expert best known as the host of the television program Survivorman, resides in Huntsville.

Sam Houston State University ( known as SHSU or Sam ) was founded in 1879 and is a public university located in Huntsville, Texas.

The University of Alabama in Huntsville ( also known as UAHuntsville or UAH ) is a state-supported, public, coeducational research university, located in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees, and is organized in five colleges: business, engineering, liberal arts, nursing and science.

Begun in January 1950 as an extension of the University of Alabama and known as the University of Alabama Huntsville Center, classes were first taught at West Huntsville High School.

Normal was established in 1890, when AAMU was then known as State Normal and Industrial School of Huntsville.

It is known as Harvey Road between Business SH 6-R and FM 158 in College Station, as 11th Street between I-45 and US 190 ( Phelps Dr ) in Huntsville, and as Riverside Drive east of US 190 ( Phelps Dr ) in Huntsville.

There was heavy security outside the Huntsville Unit, known as " The Walls ", with riot police equipped with tear gas and batons.

* Decatur, Alabama, known as " The River City ", dominated the economic landscape of north Alabama until the late 1950s, when the space race catapulted its neighbor Huntsville ( see below ) into that position.

The Von Braun Center ( VBC ), known as the Von Braun Civic Center ( VBCC ) until 1997, is a multi-purpose indoor arena, meeting, and performing arts complex, with a maximum arena seating capacity of 10, 000, located in Huntsville, Alabama.

The Virginia Lancers were a charter member of the East Coast Hockey League in 1988, later known as the Roanoke Valley Rebels and Roanoke Valley Rampage before moving to Huntsville, Alabama after the 1992-93 season.

In approximately 1779, the Robert Harvey family settled a small ranch near present-day Huntsville, becoming the first known U. S. citizens to emigrate to Texas.

Big Spring International Park ( also known as Big Spring Park ) is located in downtown Huntsville, Alabama.

:* WUMP, a sports radio station in Huntsville, Alabama, known as SportsRadio 730 The UMP.

The Apollo 16 command module Casper is on display at the U. S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

* Rocket City Ramble, a Porsche 914 event in Huntsville, Alabama

The mockup was later returned to the United States and placed on permanent display at the U. S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in May 1988.

In May 1988, it was placed on display at the U. S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Baker died November 29, 1984 at the age of 27 and is buried on the grounds of the United States Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Eisele died at the age of 57 of a heart attack while on a 1987 business trip to Tokyo, Japan, where he was to attend the opening of a new Space Camp patterned on the one at the U. S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

BP-23A is on display as part of the SA-500D Saturn V exhibit at the US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama.

The U. S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama is a museum operated by the government of Alabama, showcasing rockets, achievements, and artifacts of the U. S. space program.

* United States Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama

The setup is on display at the U. S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

* Huntsville, Alabama, " the Rocket City ", has risen to be the center of north Alabama economic activity since the dawn of the space age in the 1950s.

* U. S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama-June 25, 2010-September 6, 2010

* Official Exhibition Site: U. S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL at www. spacecamp. com

The Huntsville Botanical Garden is a 112 acres ( 453, 000 m² ) botanical garden located at 4747 Bob Wallace Avenue, Huntsville, Alabama, near the U. S. Space & Rocket Center.

The Main Propulsion Test Article, without truss work, is on display at the U. S. Space & Rocket Center, Visitor Information Center for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, alongside the MPTA-ET which is mounted under the refurbished Pathfinder orbiter simulator.

The Confederate States were the first state to consider rockets in war, based on a paper presented to President Featherston by the Huntsville Rocket Club.

U. S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The U. S. Space & Rocket Center and Space Camp ( formerly U. S. Space Camp ) in Huntsville are operated by the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission, which is a state agency whose members are appointed by the Governor of the State of Alabama.