The U.S. Space & Rocket Center museum in Huntsville Alabama launched at the Guinness Book of World Records on Tuesday July 16 2019. Simultaneously firing 4,923 of 5,000 rockets to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch 50 years ago. 5,000 model rockets were readied, 77 did not launch, a success rate of better than 98 percent. The launch went off a couple of minutes after the scheduled launch at 8:32 a.m. , 50 years after the exact moment the Saturn V lifted from Cape Canaveral on July 16, 1969 to begin its journey to ferry the first men to the surface of the moon. The event on grounds near the museum attracted a crowd of about 2,500 spectators – including hundreds of Space Camp students, Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, Marshall Space Flight Center Director Jody Singer and Wernher von Braun’s daughter Margrit. The previous Guinness World Record of 4,231 model rockets were launched at Teylingen College during a European Space Science Convention in the Netherlands, in summer 2018.