The U.S. Space and Rocket Center, located in Huntsville, is Alabama’s top tourist attraction among attractions that charge admission. The Center, which opened in 1970 as NASA’s first visitor center, includes a museum, Space Camp, Aviation Challenge and X-Camp. Also part of the complex, an Education Training Center houses the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Education Department and Marshall Space Flight Center’s Educator Resource Center.

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center is a state agency of the State of Alabama. The museum, which serves as the visitor information center for Marshall Space Flight Center, achieved Smithsonian Institution Affiliate status in 2002. Saturn V, displayed in the museum’s immense Davidson Center, was the first Saturn V to be displayed publicly and is the only one designated as a National Historic Landmark. It is also listed as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.