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!
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
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.”
Space Camp has some new simulators on the way! You can get a sneak preview of them in a mini photo gallery. The USSRC Facebook group also posted two more photos for your viewing pleasure. And they want help naming them. Space Camp is adding a new simulated mission and… Continue reading
Space Camp has gained a new look to its websites! The look of the new site was first previewed on the Community site that launched earlier this month. At the time it launched, I thought the Community site had a nice, clean look to it, and that look fits nicely… Continue reading
Space Camp today launched a new website. The Space Camp/Aviation Challenge “Alumni Community” is now live at www.spacecamp.com/community/. Space Camp made the announcement via their Facebook page this morning, but that post was quickly withdrawn. I will speculate that the post was withdrawn because the sign-up process currently requires hands-on… Continue reading
When Space Camp Florida was up and going, campers stayed in a habitat facility that was modeled after Habitat 1. In the years since Space Camp Florida’s closure, this Habitat had been sitting empty, its better days long behind it. CollectSpace forum member AFGAS posted several pictures showing that the… Continue reading
Prior to this year, every year of the Space Camp Hall of Fame seemed to go off better than the previous. This year proved itself to be no exception to that rule! The 2010 Space Camp Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was a fantastic event. If you missed it, you… Continue reading
In less than two hours, the 2010 Space Camp Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will commence! If you’re in the area, get ready and get dressed NOW! In my opinion, every HoF event has been better than the last, and many have worked hard to ensure that this year will… Continue reading
