It seems a fire has broken out in the Mars Grill area of the main museum wing at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
Local news stations have more:
It seems the fire has been contained and, thankfully, no injuries have been reported.
If you haven’t noticed on Space Camp’s Twitter feed, they’ll be featured on the Today Show tomorrow!
Tune in!
Update: Space Camp has posted the video to their YouTube Channel, and here it is!
Space Camp has uploaded all four of the inductees’ introduction videos to their YouTube channel in record time!
The prerecorded comments by Susanna Phillips and Kate Rubins are now available too, as are the remarks made by Elizabeth Bierman and Bobak Ferdowsi.
I’ve created a playlist with all of them for your convenience! Or you can view them all individually:
Most of the clips and presentations from the 2015 International Space Camp Opening Ceremony (as well as the educator graduation) are now posted on the Hab1.com YouTube channel!
There is an issue with the Indian presentation, as a video they showed caused the owner of that clip to use YouTube’s content ID system and issue a copyright strike against me. It might be six months until I can post the entirety of the opening ceremony (or any other clip longer than 10 minutes).
These things happen.
No worries! You can head straight to the 2015 International Space Camp Opening Ceremony YouTube playlist, or take a look at the individual selections below:
A few lucky Space Campers had the good fortune today to visit the Marshall Space Flight Center and hear NASA Astronaut Barry Eugene “Butch” Wilmore talk about his recent time aboard the International Space Station.
Besides talking about the highlights of his trips to space, Wilmore took several opportunities to stress the importance of a STEM education if one is interested in pursuing a career as an Astronaut.
Several local news outlets covered the event, and you can read and watch more about his visit if you are so inclined.
When you came to Space Camp, did you ever look up at the big Space Camp sign and wish you could take it home? No? Well, now you can buy it, anyway!
The old-logo sign is one of many items–some space related, some not, all great–up for auction this week!
In most years, the Hall of Fame auction has required you to be present to bid, but this year is the complete opposite!
Everything is up for auction on eBay:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/ussrc_foundation/m.html
Bid early, bid often, and come away with something nice!
Last night’s opening ceremony kicked off another year of amazing experiences and memories for students and teachers from all over the world!
Social media enables those attending ISC to share those experiences with the rest of us! A great way to keep up with how ISC progresses through the week is to keep an eye on the twitter activity from the participants.
For your convenience, I’ve created a list of these ISC 2015 participants on Twitter you can subscribe to or just visit to see all of their recent posts in one spot! Should I turn up any more tweeting International Space Campers, I’ll update the list as well as this post.
Additionally, Michael Harris, the educator from Australia, has a blog about his ISC adventure up!
July 18 marks the start of the 2015 session of International Space Camp!
It’s just one week away!
Teachers-of-the-Year from around the United States along with two students and one teacher from various countries around the world are in for an experience they won’t soon forget!
The students will attend Advanced Space Academy while the teachers attend Space Camp for Educators.
As usual, things will kick off with the International Space Camp Opening Ceremony, where everyone attending will introduce themselves and their countries. To see presentations from past events, check out the ISC playlists on the Hab1.com YouTube page!
Ahead of their travels, there’s some news out of a few of the countries regarding their students.
Sarah Callinan, one of the Australian students, was interviewed about her upcoming trip to America.
The New Zealand Herald wrote an article about Grace Jacobs Corban, one of the students coming from NZ.
Finally, the organization that decides who from Austria attends requires students to submit videos as to why they wish to participate. Both the male and female students, Lukas Traxi and Chiara Martyka, respectively, have their videos available here with the announcement.
It appears Space Camp lacked the same level of ambition as Mercedes Fox when they wrote the copy, “For ages 9 to 99.”
Mercedes is attending Space Camp this week at the ripe old age of 100!
This morning the very first Space Camper in orbit, Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, met with Mercedes and made this tweet:
AL.com wrote about Mercedes Fox’s trip to Space Camp as well!
Space Camp and Third Rock Radio are conducting five random drawings.
Those chosen will receive two free, all-access passes to the entirety of the Space Camp Alumni Festival!
Head on over to the contest page at: http://www.spacecamp.com/alumnifestival/contest, enter your info and (maybe) win!
The drawings dates for the tickets are 6/26/2015, 7/3/2015, 7/10/2015, 7/17/2015, and 7/20/2015.
You can enter up until 07/19/2015 and be eligible for any drawings that have yet to take place!
Good luck!
Speaking of Third Rock Radio, TRR recently interviewed Space Camp Alumni Advancement Board Chair John Ramsey about the Alumni Festival, and you can listen to that interview online, if you are so inclined.