DESTINATION · USSRC / HUNTSVILLE, AL

Venue

Take the Con takes place at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center developed the Saturn V.

Not a conference hotel or sterile event center, but a working space museum where you'll convene beneath a rocket and break between sessions among hardware that left the planet.

FIG. 1 — NOMINAL DESCENT TO LANDING SITE · U.S. SPACE & ROCKET CENTER · 34.7120°N 86.6556°WORIGINAL DIAGRAM · INSPIRED BY NASA’S APOLLO 11 PRESS KIT, PDF PP. 42–45 (opens in a new tab)

A crowd gathered beneath the Saturn V engine stage under a sweep of laser light — KEYNOTEBeneath the Saturn V.

A full audience in the National Geographic Theater facing a speaker and a large data chart on screen — SESSIONSTalks in the theater.

An evening reception set up beneath the Space Shuttle stack at dusk — AFTER HOURSShuttle in the courtyard.

EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY · U.S. SPACE & ROCKET CENTER

Aerial view of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center campus at sunset — the standing Saturn V, the Pathfinder shuttle stack, museum halls and Rocket Park among autumn trees — FIG. 2 — U.S. SPACE & ROCKET CENTER · HUNTSVILLE, AL

ABOUT THE CENTER

The official NASA visitor center for Marshall Space Flight Center and a Smithsonian Affiliate, the Center holds more than 1,500 artifacts of human spaceflight — among them the Saturn V, the Apollo 16 command module, a Skylab workshop, and the Pathfinder shuttle. It is also home to Space Camp, and draws visitors from every U.S. state and 80-plus nations.

VISIT ROCKETCENTER.COM

FIG. 3 — LANDING SITE · 34.7120°N 86.6556°WORIGINAL MAP · INSPIRED BY NASA’S APOLLO 11 PRESS KIT, PDF P. 63 (opens in a new tab)

MISSION · TAKE THE CONEDITION · PRE-REGISTRATION · VENUEREV · 2MSC FORM 2189-TTC