Tours
History BuffFAME Recording Studios
Under $25Take a guided tour of Studios A and B, where Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and Etta James recorded.
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U.S. Space & Rocket Center
U.S. Space & Rocket Center is a museum in Huntsville, AL, part of the North Alabama guide. Cost: $25 to $50.
One Tranquility Base · Huntsville, AL
Why you should go…
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center opened in 1970 and is home to Space Camp. In Saturn V Hall you walk beneath the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle, and the Apollo 16 command module that orbited the Moon in 1972 is on display. Outside, Rocket Park and Shuttle Park hold rockets and the full-scale Pathfinder shuttle mockup, which was restored and rededicated in 2024. General admission also covers Spark!Lab and the ISS: Science on Orbit exhibit.
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What's around here?
The closest stops to U.S. Space & Rocket Center, ordered by straight-line distance.
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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
$25–$50Take a guided tour of the 1969 studio where the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan recorded.
58 mi awaySwitch it up: Tours
- SightseeingHistory Buff
Ivy Green
Under $25Tour Helen Keller's childhood home and see the well pump where she first connected words to the world.
60 mi awaySwitch it up: Sightseeing
