HUNTSVILLE, AL – At 7:30 a.m., Heather Finley and her son, 10-year-old son Grayson Finley, waited outside the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. The Finleys, from Bentonville, Ark., drove 10 hours to see “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination.”

“We planned our whole vacation around the opening of the ‘Star Wars’ exhibition,” Finley said. “We are really big ‘Star Wars’ fans.”

Following a year of planning and a month-long installation process, the space center opened the much-anticipated “Star Wars” exhibit on Friday morning. The countdown sign facing Interstate 565 reads “Now Open.” more…