After showings in Houston, Grand Rapids, MI, and Los Angeles, the Smile as Big as the Moon premiere train made another successful stop in Huntsville last night. And, oh, what a night! They rolled out the red carpet, and Huntsville showed up! The event was a fine, fancy evening. Attendess to the premiere could have their picture […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wes Lyons attended the LA premiere of A Smile as Big as the Moon and has a blog post up about it now over at his site. Again, as a reminder, the Huntsville premiere is this evening. Though the link to the Space Camp Store to buy a ticket seems to have gone offline, you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mike Flachbart, Vice President of Center Operations, posted a fantastic photo to his twitter feed. An impressive six members of the Space Camp Hall of Fame live in the Houston area, and every single one of them made it out to the Houston Smile premiere last Friday night! Update: As Robert Pearlman rightly pointed out […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Smile as Big as the Moon sees its LA premiere this evening. Wes Lyons is out there, so here’s to hoping to see coverage of the event on his site real soon! Other members of the Huntsville local media are out for the event as well. WAAY has sent Shea Allen out to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Though filming occurred in October, A Smile as Big as the Moon is ready for its premiere. The movie will show on January 29 at 9pm EST on ABC. And a trailer has been posted: You can visit Space Camp’s web page for the movie to find premieres in Huntsville, Houston, and Grand Rapids, Michigan if you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All the way back in 2002, you may remember that I reviewed the book, A Smile as Big as the Moon, a wonderful story about a group of special needs kids who manage to get themselves to Space Camp despite internal and external obstacles. My book report ended with the following: And for you Space […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Space Camp gets a nod on this week’s episode of the show Covert Affairs on USA. The synopsis of the NASA-themed episode is: Annie gets orders to infiltrate a NASA satellite maintenance team that may have a staff member giving intelligence to Colombian FARC rebels. Annie meets Will and his son Charlie at a Mars […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Years ago, I posted that I had just seen the movie Beyond the Stars, which featured the Space & Rocket Center / Space Camp in the film: So I’m watching this cheesy movie from 1989 called “Beyond the Stars.” It’s a movie where Christian Slater wants to be an astronaut, and throughout the movie they […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While I plan to do a write-up of my Adult Alumni Space Academy (mis)adventure, I wanted to share with you the best story I’ve heard in some time! My teammate Sarah recants the tale of how she got Kelly Preston to sign her SpaceCamp poster! And pics of the poster:
That campy Camp classic from the 80s that we all know and love is going for the really low price of $5.89 including shipping right now at DeepDiscount.com If you’ve never ordered from DeepDiscount.com, fear not! I have. They’re good people with good prices and free shipping on everything. If you don’t yet own this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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