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Visitors to the state entering from the main northern artery of I-65, are greeted with a similar site: the heavily wooded, rolling hills they’ve seen for the last 300 miles of Kentucky and Tennessee. But, then they approach the welcome center to stretch, and there is another site that catches the unsuspecting off guard — a Saturn V rocket stretching defiantly, arrogantly towards the sky; a reminder that as long as humans have lived, they have looked up into the night into the stars and wondered what is out there.