Attention, Imperial citizens! The Alabama Garrison will be appearing at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville on Saturday, September 26th. The “Smithsonian Day” event will run from from 9:00AM til 3:00PM, and the Space Center crew is expecting upwards of 4,000 attendees! General admission is FREE for this event, so come on out and bring the whole family!

Darth Vader will be on hand more…

The annual “homecoming” of the 501st Legion is here! Dragon*Con 2009 runs September 4-7 in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, and is billed as America’s largest multi-media, pop culture convention focusing on sci-fi, fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music and film. You can count on the 501st to provide mainstay entertainment like the Droid Hunt game, the parade march, the 501st archives display and photo ops a plenty!

Be sure to stop by the 501st fan table in the Hyatt for all the details. Click here to learn more about Dragon*Con, and if you run into Vader’s Fist at D*C, be sure to tweet about it using the #501st hashtag on twitter!

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.

“We’ve got a year to get ready, so we’re going to have some fun with it,” says Larry Capps, the Space & Rocket Center’s CEO. “I suspect you may see some of the Star Wars characters pop up at venues across the state and all around the Southeast promoting this,” he adds. more…