With the onset of World War II the city was chosen as the location of Redstone Arsenal, a military base. After the war, captured Nazi scientist [[Wernher von Braun]] was brought to the base to work at the Marshall Space Flight Center and develop what would become [[NASA]]. Due to its history of involvement with the US space program, the city has been nicknamed "Rocket City", for which it has been famous ever since.
Redstone Arsenal (located outside the city proper) is home to many organizational units of the [[United States Army]], along with NASA and the [[FBI]]. It is long rumored that, should President [[Donald Trump]] succeed in moving agencies' headquarters from the Washington, DC area, that Huntsville would be a probable location for the FBI.
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