The Endeavor shuttle simulator Academy kids have come to know and love is leaving the TCF. But the TCF will not be devoid of an Endeavor orbiter as the current Intrepid simulator will be renamed. Still, it’s a shame. I spent more time than anyone else there this past summer…. Continue reading
The 15th annual International Space Camp program kicks off today! Teachers and young adults from all over the world will be in Huntsville this week to train at Space Camp. Other activities unique to ISC are planned as well. ISC is always and exciting time at Space Camp and this… Continue reading
In what has surely been a long time coming, Space Camp now has an astronaut to truly call its own! Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger who is one of the new batch of astronauts also attended Space Camp! To be more specific, I believe she attended Space Academy for Educators in 1990…the details… Continue reading
As promised for mid March, Space Camp has their new website up and running. Despite a few quirks that no doubt will be worked out shortly, it is truly a vast improvement over the old site design(s)! Don’t delay, check it out!
The TCF Updates are coming along nicely! Smiley was kind enough to pass along a few photos of the star curtain now on the Training Center Floor. These pics kinda show what the star curtains look like. Its kinda hard to capture the effect. The stars are LED’s and vary… Continue reading
I received some troubling news in my inbox the other day, and it had been discussed in the forum even before that. Aviation Challenge and Space Camp has lost one of its own. Former AC Counselor Jenie Purves, callsign “Texaco,” [was] laid to rest [on Friday, February 6, 2004] at… Continue reading
Space Camp has just posted information regarding the 8 day ASA and Mach III programs online. If you visit the website and click on the “Click for your Special Invitation – Alumni Only Special” at the top left corner, you’ll be taken to all of the information. Or you can… Continue reading
(partially, at least) Space Camp will have several special sessions this summer for ASA where the Extended Duration Mission will be 24 hours instead of the now shortened six hour EDM’s. Many moons ago, the EDMs were 24 hours long. Later, they were shortened to 12 hours. When the program… Continue reading
(It was either that, or, “When Life Hands you Lemons…” You can decide which is the better title). From Channel 19 in Huntsville comes a story of a kid who, despite being told “no” from his parents regarding sending him to camp, decided to go anyway. Space Camp wasn’t a… Continue reading
That was the message handed out on Monday by the consultants hired by the US Space & Rocket Center to figure out why camp attendance has declined steadily over the past few years. For more than five hours Monday, the bosses of U.S. Space Camp heard what others think about their business…. Continue reading
