Child of Maia Silver Anniversary Traditional Cache
isht kinta: Since the cache owner has not responded to my reviewer log requesting the geocache be maintained, the geocache has been archived. Per the geocaching guidelines, geocaches archived for lack of maintenance response cannot be unarchived.
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Child of Maia Silver Anniversary
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You can call me Mercury or you can call me Hermes or you can call me Thoth or you can call me Trismegistus. Black Altoids tin that has magnets, although it seems they serve no real purpose.
Here's another one that I bet you've driven by at least a couple of times and never stopped to read the sign. The sign really doesn't tell much of the story as to why this is an important item.
Suggested parking at the end of the soccer field lot just off Airport Rd., about .19 walk. Not at the closed Copelands, although a lot shorter that choice incurs a game of human Frogger that I don't recommend.
Cache contains just a log and a baggie, so bring a pen or pencil, no writing utensil left as I didn't want it to tear the baggie. Remember that bit about the magnets? A cachers tool kit will often times include a mirror or a magnet on an extendable holder. This may come in handy depending on where the last person replaces the cache.
The Arsenals importance to the Tennessee Valley is huge, probably even more so during this early time, one note shows that the population of Huntsville jumped from around 16,000 to 50,000 in 1956. At the end of WWII Redstone and Huntsville Arsenals ceased munition productions. Huntsville Arsenal? that area later became the missile test sites. 1948 was the start of what was to come, with Dr. Wernher von Braun and his team of German scientists and engineers coming to RSA. From 1950-1962 many missiles were developed. Recall that both the Cold war and the Korean War were starting, Viet Nam was to come, the space race, satellites all these things impacted on what was being developed at RSA. At inception the Redstone rocket was known by many names: HERMES Cl, MAJOR, URSA, XSSM-G-14, XSSM-A-14, and Old Reliable. On 10 July 1951, the R&D responsibility for the REDSTONE project came to Redstone Arsenal. The REDSTONE was a highly accurate, liquid propelled, surface-to-surface missile capable of transporting nuclear or conventional warheads against targets at ranges up to approximately 200 miles. First deployed in 1958, the REDSTONE was the forerunner of the JUPITER missile. On 31 January 1958, the REDSTONE was used as the first stage in the launch vehicle used by the Army to orbit the EXPLORER I, the Free World's first scientific earth satellite. A modified REDSTONE carried CDR Alan B. Shepard, Jr. on his historic suborbital flight on 5 May 1961. From the Historical Marker: 22 July 56 Redstone Arsenal officially presented a HERMES missile to the citizens of Huntsville and Madison County. The missile and its historical marker were set up on the corner of Memorial Parkway and Airport Road.
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Gur pbagnvare vf zntargvp ohg gur ebpxrg vfa'g.
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