Ricky’s Rocket

Ricky’s Rocket is a monument in Madison, Alabama. Ricky’s Rocket is situated nearby to the playground Kids Space Park, as well as near the power station Redstone Energy Park.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Crestwood Medical Center and Joe W. Davis Stadium.

Crestwood Medical Center

Hospital

Huntsville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama. The population was 215,006 at the 2020 census, making it the 100th-most populous city in the U.S., while the Huntsville metropolitan area has an estimated 542,000 residents and is the second-most populous metropolitan area in the state. Crestwood Medical Center is situated 3,000 feet northeast of Ricky’s Rocket.

Joe W. Davis Stadium

Stadium

Wicks Family Field at Joe Davis Stadium is a soccer stadium in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, and was formerly a minor league baseball stadium. Joe Davis Stadium hosted the Huntsville Stars of the Southern League from 1985 until 2014, and then served as a temporary home for the Stars' successor in 2015. Joe W. Davis Stadium is situated 4,200 feet northwest of Ricky’s Rocket.

Parkway Place Mall

Shopping center

Photo: Nick Number, CC BY 4.0.

Parkway Place Mall is an upscale shopping mall in Huntsville, Alabama that opened on October 16, 2002. Parkway Place is located at the site of the older Parkway City Mall, which was torn down to allow for the construction of the newer facility. Parkway Place Mall is situated 1¼ miles north of Ricky’s Rocket.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Huntsville and Lily Flagg.

Huntsville

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Huntsville is in northern Alabama, about 20 miles from the border with Tennessee. The city is a center for missile defense and aerospace technologies, with companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman having major operations here.

Lily Flagg

Hamlet

Signal's Lily Flagg 31035, also spelled Flag, was a Jersey cow, the top butter producer in the world in 1892, owned by W. E. Matthews and General Samuel H. Lily Flagg is situated 3 miles south of Ricky’s Rocket.

Ricky’s Rocket

Type: Monument
Inscription: “Ricky always wanted to go to the moon but couldn’t because it was too expensive. Then one day he got a smart idea and laughed because he was so clever. He would build build a neat rocket! So he went to the junkyard and got real scared because a guard d”
Category: historic site
Location: Madison, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

34.69007° or 34° 41′ 24″ north

Longitude

-86.58123° or 86° 34′ 52″ west

Open location code

866MMCR9+2G

OpenStreetMap ID

node 10152787134

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=monument

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Notable Places Nearby

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