Oct 2002
CHANGES to the Training Center Floor
Tuesday, October 29, 2002 Filed in: Space Camp
News
This just in!
The Training Center Floor is currently undergoing some pretty major changes!
Check out the pictures...notice any changes (click on the images for a larger picture)?!
The Training Center Floor is currently undergoing some pretty major changes!
Check out the pictures...notice any changes (click on the images for a larger picture)?!
(highlight below for
the answer)
Well,
Columbia simulator has been completely dismantled
(hence it's not in these pictures anymore) and the
Atlantis simulator has been rotated. Why, you may
ask...well, that indeed is a very good
question!
Maybe there's Something to that Jackrabbit story...
Tuesday, October 29, 2002 Filed in: Space Related
This story from
News.com.au
today reports
that a nine-year-old boy in China was injured when
debris fell from a discarded rocket that had launched
a satellite into space (he'll be fine though).
...Sure makes one believe it was possible that a jackrabbit really was crushed when that oxygen tank from Skylab landed in Australia! Well, sorta, anyway....
...Sure makes one believe it was possible that a jackrabbit really was crushed when that oxygen tank from Skylab landed in Australia! Well, sorta, anyway....
Clearing up the Space Camp Florida Debacle
Monday, October 28, 2002 Filed in: Space Camp
News
As no one around
here, myself included, was really sure the fate of
Space Camp Florida after the foreclosure of the
Astronaut Hall of Fame and Space Camp Florida, I
thought I would post an article I came across that
pretty much spells it out.
Space Camp Florida is dead.
Published yesterday in the Sun-Sentinel, this article cites a young girl's efforts to save it (She wrote to Jeb and George Bush!) as well as citing that when the Astronaut Hall of Fame was purchased, "Space Camp Florida was not spared."
*sigh*...And then there was one.
Space Camp Florida is dead.
Published yesterday in the Sun-Sentinel, this article cites a young girl's efforts to save it (She wrote to Jeb and George Bush!) as well as citing that when the Astronaut Hall of Fame was purchased, "Space Camp Florida was not spared."
*sigh*...And then there was one.
New Space Camps on the Horizon?
Thursday, October 24, 2002 Filed in: Space Camp
News
An article in
the Washington Post last week indicated that the
prospect of another Space Camp opening up were quite
possible in Prince George's County, Maryland.
The article cites a study currently underway to determine if a Space Camp there could be successful.
If approved, a Space Camp along with a new Space and Flight Center would be opened, and is estimated it could attract up to 90,000 visitors per year.
The article can be read online here, and a website with a mockup of the proposed center can be found here.
Despite the recent troubles of Space Camp California and Space Camp Florida, officials in Maryland are confident their situation is quite different.
If it goes through, I truly hope so.
Meanwhile, it would appear as if a Space Camp in Korea has been approved! A story on that can be found here.
The article cites a study currently underway to determine if a Space Camp there could be successful.
If approved, a Space Camp along with a new Space and Flight Center would be opened, and is estimated it could attract up to 90,000 visitors per year.
The article can be read online here, and a website with a mockup of the proposed center can be found here.
Despite the recent troubles of Space Camp California and Space Camp Florida, officials in Maryland are confident their situation is quite different.
If it goes through, I truly hope so.
Meanwhile, it would appear as if a Space Camp in Korea has been approved! A story on that can be found here.
May The Force Be With...IMAX
Saturday, October 12, 2002 Filed in: Space
& Rocket Center News
This comes at a wonderful time, as IMAX has just mastered Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones onto 70mm IMAX film.
The USSRC will be showing Episode II 4 times daily beginning November 1st and running until January 2nd. Ticket prices are $10.00 for adults, $8.00 for children (an increase, if I am remembering their old prices correctly). Of course, the prices are half that if you get a membership.
A full list of theaters showing Episode II can be found here.
USSRC Press Section Updated
Saturday, October 05, 2002 Filed in: Hab1 News
This one was put out near the beginning of the year to highlight various things that would be going on through the coming 2002 year, such as the 20th Anniversary of Space Camp.
Saturn V Stories & Werner von Braun
Tuesday, October 01, 2002 Filed in: Commentary
So I was at the
library studying for an exam today when, not really
wanting to study at that moment, I started perusing
the bookshelves near me and, quite literally, at the
very last bookshelf at the back of the room in the
corner bottom rack, I found a book from 1976 titled,
"Werner von Braun" by one Erik Bergaust.
I flipped through it a
while and looked up "Alabama Space & Rocket
Center" in the index and found a passage telling
about the arrival of the Saturn V to the mueseum
that I thought would be worthwhile to share
here, as I know I myself have heard at least two
somewhat different stories as to how it got and
stayed in Huntsville.
When the [Space & Rocket] Center was conceived in the mid-sixties, Saturn rocket stages were scattered all over the United States. They had been used by a variety of contractors and other Apollo program participants for a number of tests and shop work. As the Center developed, von Braun put out the word to have the Saturn I and Saturn V stages returned to Huntsville for even more testing, and when the hardware arrived and all the other testing had been completed, von Braun made arrangements to have it assembled for "a final transportation test." It involved hauling the stages the six miles from Marshall to the Space Center. Once they arrvied there it was decided to store them for safekeeping in the event additional testing became necessary...
So it would seem this is how he got all the parts there. Quite resourcefull indeed!
When the [Space & Rocket] Center was conceived in the mid-sixties, Saturn rocket stages were scattered all over the United States. They had been used by a variety of contractors and other Apollo program participants for a number of tests and shop work. As the Center developed, von Braun put out the word to have the Saturn I and Saturn V stages returned to Huntsville for even more testing, and when the hardware arrived and all the other testing had been completed, von Braun made arrangements to have it assembled for "a final transportation test." It involved hauling the stages the six miles from Marshall to the Space Center. Once they arrvied there it was decided to store them for safekeeping in the event additional testing became necessary...
So it would seem this is how he got all the parts there. Quite resourcefull indeed!