The U.S. Space & Rocket Center, located in Huntsville, Alabama, is an educational space museum and visitor center dedicated to showcasing the history and future of human spaceflight. It operates as the Official Visitor Center for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and a Visitor Center for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The institution is also an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.
The center's collection comprises more than 1,500 rockets and space artifacts, with an estimated value in the tens of millions of dollars. It welcomes over 650,000 visitors annually, having received nearly 17 million visitors since its establishment.
Its operations span the museums and cultural heritage, education and tourism, and space and aerospace sectors. The organization provides a tangible link between public education and the technical achievements of the U.S. space program through its permanent and traveling exhibits.
