The community near the Ukrainian border was chosen because it is the birthplace of Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut.

Gyulaháza mayor Béla Bardi told szon.hu website that he only sought funds for a showroom to display an exhibition on the history of space flight and aviation that had been on show in the town’s now closed Transport Museum.

It then became a “space centre,” but what that means is not specified by Magyar Közlöny nor the mayor, 444 observes.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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