It seems the Discovery mission isn’t the only shuttle dealing with debris issues and damage. Unfortunately, Pathfinder has spent many, many years outside in the hot and humid North Alabama weather. Just last night, a massive piece of Pathfinder broke loose and fell off! The piece came from the belly… Continue reading
Space Camp has just launched a much needed makeover to spacecamp.com! Overall, I think it looks like a nice effort! If nothing else, it’s certainly an improvement over the previous site as I’m sure we can all agree that it had gotten a bit cluttered and disorganized. And so well… Continue reading
Space Camp has posted video from the Good Morning America spots onto their YouTube page. Good stuff! Take a gander, if you weren’t able (read: awake) to watch! The opening: The rest: The Good Morning America spot no doubt provided Space Camp (and Dreamland Barbecue) with great exposure that will… Continue reading
Space Camp sent out an email to let people know that our Saturn V will be featured on Good Morning America tomorrow morning as one of the “7 Wonders of America.” From the email: Good Morning America has named our Saturn V 500D/F as one of the 7 Wonders of… Continue reading
Thanks to Matthew Danner, the HabFiles section has received an update! A book was produced and given out to international Space Camp licensees. It’s a very nice artifact. It has some rarely seen photos of now defunct Space Camps as well as listings of some that were not meant to… Continue reading
Some very lucky Space Campers were able to go to Marshall Space Flight Center today to see the crew of STS-122! The crew brought along a highlight reel of their mission and took questions from both Space Campers and NASA-folk alike! Afterwards, the crew was gracious enough to stick around… Continue reading
Here’s a big, bold reminder that today is the very last day to submit your nomination for the 2008 Space Camp Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Get to it!
Nominations for the 2008 Space Camp Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony are due on April 13, 2008! You can nominate whomever you feel best meets the criteria as outlined on the Hall of Fame Nomination Criteria page. From there you can also submit the nomination. Last year’s inductees can be… Continue reading
A display with pieces of Columbia was set up a few days ago in the lobby of the building I work in. It’s quite sobering to stand so close to remnants of such a tragedy. And yet it provides a very sobering reminder and memorial. I thought it right to… Continue reading
It seems the Space Center hasn’t been taking care of all of their artifacts. Say it isn’t so! NASA Watch had this post the other day. In short, if you visited the Space Center during the mid-90s, you would have been able to walk though the Skylab trainer. Well, it’s… Continue reading
