U.S. Space & Rocket Center at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama Payload Operations Center monitors scientific experiments performed by astronauts on board the International Space Station. This control room is continuously in touch with ISS and Ground Control in Houston.
German culture was transplanted in the Deep South when Wernher Von Braun and 100 German rocket scientists were brought to Huntsville in the 1950s. Hence, Oktoberfest at U.S. Space & Rocket Center on Thursdays.
That's a cool place worthy of spending couple of hours the other place to visit not far away from the Marshall Center (about six miles away) is the US Space & Rocket Center! http://rocketcenter.com/