This is the city Neil Armstrong hailed ... Stepping out onto the tower, one has a view of the entire region, with Johnson Space Center sprawling over the flatlands just to the east.

In addition to the space station VR experience, visitors to "Space Explorers: THE INFINITE" can now get a front row view of the launch ... is now back in Space City for a limited second run.

Local kids went bonkers. Kerry Pinkerton was 14 or 15 when Space City was announced and remembers "the hype." "This was front-page news in the mid-'60s in Huntsville," he said. He vividly ...

"And every newspaper in town, the front page was covered with, 'We're Space City.' 'We are now fighting the Russians from Houston.' It was spectacular." A year later, President Kennedy was at Rice ...

Houston is still positioned as the "Space City" for a reason. In the early 1960s, Houston was known as the Bayou City, and its baseball team was called the Colt .45s. But, that changed overnight.

A large sign and other artifacts from Space City USA, a proposed theme park being built in Huntsville, Alabama in the 1960s were recently found in a deteriorating barn in Chickamauga, Georgia near ...