From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.

So there you have it: the world’s largest space museum is right here in Alabama, waiting to blow your mind with rockets, spacecraft, and the inspiring story of human space exploration.

Almost forgotten now, the mission circled the Earth for 10 days, performing a series of tests with the lunar lander. What it lacked in glory it made up for in technological contributions. By Kenneth ...