Tomorrow starts day one of the 2011 Great Moonbuggy Race! Once again, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center will be host to teams of high school and college students from all around the country and the world! If you’re in the area, I highly recommend coming out the Space &… Continue reading
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,… Continue reading
Space Camp recently began offering “Behind the Scenes” tours for visitors to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Naturally, I recently went over to the Space Center and took the tour! My tour left promptly at 2pm and had nearly 20 people in it. Though there seemed to be only… Continue reading
Space Camp Live is back today to bring you the Fred Haise lunch. If you head over there right now, you can see him talk! This will be especially good if you can’t make it to his talk tonight!
Amazon backed group deals site, Living Social, is currently offering quite a deal on USSRC admission. For the next two days, you can pay $12 for an adult ticket or $10 for a child’s ticket, and you’ll get admission to the museum and an IMAX or 3-D movie. LivingSocial lists this as… Continue reading
In addition to seeing Fred Haise speak this Friday evening, you can have lunch with him too! “Lunch with an Astronaut” will host Fred Haise at noon on Friday, March 18, 2011. Tickets are $25.00 and can be purchased online.
During the 25th anniversary, Space Camp issued monthly newsletters in order to update newsletter receipients as to what was going on. Another feature was a featured alumnus and what they were up to in the present day. Space Camp seems on the verge of doing at least the latter again… Continue reading
Remember way back when, back when the Training Center Floor used to look like this: The training center was nice and open and, perhaps most importantly, it was easily viewable by museum visitors as they walked between the museum and Shuttle Park. How many kids do you think went to… Continue reading
Fred Haise will visit the Space & Rocket Center next Friday, March 18, 2011. USSRC members received notification today: Join us on Friday, March 18, 2011, at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration as the U.S. Space and Rocket Center’s Passing the Torch Lecture Series presents Fred Haise, Apollo 13… Continue reading
Venerable astronaut and great friend to Space Camp, Robert “Hoot” Gibson will be answering your questions on Twitter live during the launch of STS-133 today! Tag your question #askhoot on Twitter. You can see the questions get answered on “Space Camp Live.”
