Alabama native Mary Anderson is credited with inventing the first operational windshield wiper. In her November 10th, 1903, patent, she called her invention a window-cleaning device for electric cars and [more]

When the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik in October 1957, the United States needed to quickly join the Space Race. Werner von Braun, head of the U.S. Space Program at [more]

Located in the heart of Alabama’s aerospace industry, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville is dedicated to the U.S. space program. The collections span the history of space [more]