The U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s CEO, Dr. Deborah Barnhart, will be stepping down from her position at the end of 2019 to “pursue other opportunities.” There was extensive media coverage from within Huntsville news media: WHNT 19: CEO of Space & Rocket Center stepping down Sprocketeers: BARNHART TO STEP… Continue reading
The 2019 Hall of Fame went off splendidly this past Saturday night, with three new inductees having been inducted in the Space Camp Hall of Fame! Wally Funk, Casey Harris (of X Ambassadors fame), Virgin Galactic’s Beth Moses, and Astronaut Christina Koch were welcomed into the ranks of the Hall… Continue reading
Dr. Georg von Tiesenhausen passed away in the late evening of Sunday, June 3, 2018. He was 104 years old. One of the original scientists to come over to America with Dr. Wernher von Braun, Dr. von T helped get America to the moon. More importantly, he was a great friend… Continue reading
SpaceCamp is finally getting a Blu-Ray release! September 26, 2017 is the day! And it’s available for preorder at Amazon! The distributor of the film, Kino Lorber, was kind enough to send me an advance copy of the film, and I am here to give you my thoughts! The short… Continue reading
Two weeks ago, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey was on hand at Tthe Space & Rocket Center to announce a staggering $10 million grant to Space Camp to provide the initial funding for a new cyber security camp! The money will presumably be used to fund new facilities to help facilitate… Continue reading
Atlantis may be gone, but there’s a new capsule simulator in the floor at Space Camp! The new capsule can be seen on the left side of the photo, on the opposite side of the Training Center Floor from the other space capsule simulator, seen on the far right side… Continue reading
Atlantis has flown her last mission. Yesterday, Space Camp made the following post to their facebook page: And so ends a very long era. Atlantis came to Space Camp in 1986, after its use in SpaceCamp the movie had finished. Farewell, Atlantis. You were a good ship. You did your namesake… Continue reading
In the midst of all of the stories and reporting regarding President Trump’s Executive Order banning certain individuals from entering the United States, one human interest story involving Space Camp came to light. Pouya Ghadirian, a 15-year-old with dual-Australian-Iranian citizenship, was planning on going to Space Camp this March, but the… Continue reading
After this year’s “Hoot Camp,” an Adult Advanced Space Academy with Astronauts Robert “Hoot” Gibson and Bob Springer, wraps up tomorrow, Hoot Gibson will be sticking around to do a Facebook Live Q&A! Tune in at 12:30pm CDT to ask Hoot a question and hear what he has to say!
Saturday was the big day! Saturday held the Space Camp Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony! Before the ceremony, there were, of course, more opportunities to dive in the Underwater Astronaut Trainer, fly missions with Astronauts, and run missions from Mission Control with actual NASA flight operations staff! At 10:30 in… Continue reading
