Space & Rocket Center - Huntsville Alabama

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center has one of the largest collections of rockets and space memorabilia on display anywhere in the world. Learn about the journey through America's Space Race and NASA's plan to put man on the moon, the development of the space shuttle program and the International Space Station, and get a glimpse of the future in commercial space ventures and the latest technological innovations.

Get a sense of what it is like to live and work in space as you walk through the space station in ISS: Science on Orbit. Experience a model of NASA's Payload Operations Integration Center, where scientists and engineers on Earth manage the complex, science experiments that astronauts conduct on the International Space Station.

Experience the mesmerizing view of a National Historic Landmark, an authentic Saturn V rocket one of only three in the world, located in the Saturn V Hall of the Davidson Center for Space Exploration. The hall showcases NASA and Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) contributions to historic, current and future space exploration.

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center Rocket Park was called "the finest rocket collection in the world" by Mercury astronaut John Glenn. In the park, 27 missiles and rockets show how Army rocketry launched America's space program and gave rise to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Explore the most complete chronology of launch vehicles in the country, including the world's only fully-stacked Space Transportation System (STS) that includes two solid rocket boosters, genuine space shuttle main engine nozzles and a genuine external tank. The Pathfinder orbiter is on display in Shuttle Park and is flanked by a T-38, a twin-engine supersonic jet used in astronaut training, and the newest addition to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA), the only one of NASA's four modified Gulfstream II aircraft on display anywhere in the world.

Space & Rocket Center - Huntsville AL