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First time in the Southeast, expected to impact tourism throughout Alabama

HUNTSVILLE, AL – The U.S. Space & Rocket Center® today kicked off a one-year campaign to welcome its newest exhibit to Alabama’s top tourist attraction: the world renowned Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit, presented by Bose Corporation.

HUNTSVILLE, AL – The U.S. Space & Rocket Center will induct three people into the Space Camp Hall of Fame during Reunion Weekend activities in July.
The newest class of inductees include:
• Retired U.S. Army veteran and former Aviation Challenge staff member Jerry Gleason, who developed the ever-popular Land Survival Training course,

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar mission, the U. S. Space & Rocket Center® has commissioned an exciting new book featuring the sketches and paintings of famed NASA artist Paul Calle.

HUNTSVILLE, AL – The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is preparing for its sixth and final Saturn/Apollo Reunion. Next year, the ever popular mid-summer get-together will have a new name!

The health and safety of our guests and trainees has always been a top priority at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center®. Each year, many thousands of families entrust their children into our care to take part in Space Camp®, Aviation Challenge®, or one of our other world-renowned educational programs. It’s a responsibility we take very seriously.

Star Trek: The IMAX Experience to open on May 7, 2009 at the Spacedome IMAX® Theater at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center

HUNTSVILLE, AL – The Davidson Center for Space Exploration at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville will be the site of a black-tie optional dinner and dance celebrating the Apollo space program on Saturday, February 7, 2009, beginning with a reception at 6:00 P.M., dinner and program to follow at 7:00 P.M.
Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke will be the featured speaker, and CNN’s Miles O’Brien will be the Master of Ceremonies.

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Dr. George Edwin Mueller, the former Associate Administrator of NASA’s Office of Manned Space Flight during the historic Apollo era, has been named the recipient of the first Ernst Stuhlinger Visionary Award by officials at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville.

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Space Camp graduate and Space Camp Hall of Fame inductee Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger is scheduled to fly aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in February, 2010. She will become the first Space Camp graduate to actually fly in space!
Dottie attended Space Academy when she was just 14 years old. She says the experience was life-changing and solidified her love for science.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Registration is open for NASA's 16th annual Great Moonbuggy Race, taking place April 3-4, 2009, in Huntsville, Ala.

Each year, NASA challenges high schools and colleges across the country and the world to design and build lightweight, human-powered moonbuggies. Innovative students put their own spin on the historic lunar rovers that carried Americans across the surface of the moon during the Apollo era. Builders with "the right stuff" then converge on Huntsville to test their engineering savvy -- and their endurance