NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Tomorrow and Saturday

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NASA Rover Challenge LogoThe annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Tomorrow and Saturday (formally The Great Moonbuggy Race) begins tomorrow and runs through Saturday at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center!

The race begins at 7am both days! Come early! It’s a pretty exciting thing to check out!

Students from around the world make rovers and compete on a course around the Space Center! Amongst the many engineering challenges, the students’ rovers can’t use air pressure in their tires and the entire vehicle must fold up and fit withing a small amount of space (3 cubic feet, I think)!

If you can’t make it out, Marshall Space Flight Center will be streaming video live both days on their Ustream Channel!  The event will be live-tweeted as well @RoverChallenge.

Shuttle-Centaur on the Move

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Shuttle-Centaur in 1994 from Hab2The large silver cylinder that has stood just outside of Hab2 for decades was shipped off today.

The Shuttle-Centaur rocket stage will be making its new home at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

Space Camp Hall of Famer Robert Pearlman has more over at CollectSpace.

For one heck of a story about the fate of this booster, read this fascinating article by Space Hipsters Facebook group
founder Emily Carney over at Ars Technica.

[b]Update:[/b]

Space Camp has posted this timelapse video of the move to their YouTube channel:

 

Welcome, Trip

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Space Camp has hired Trip Ferguson away from Remington’s Huntsville operations and made him the new Vice President of Space Camp Programs.

The news broke via the January USSRC Newsletter, as shown below!

Congratulations on getting the gig, Trip, and welcome to Space Camp!Trip January Newsletter Excerpt

The Roof…The Roof…

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For the second time this year, the day after Christmas, a fire broke out at Space Camp.

Fortunately, for the second time this year, no one was injured.

This fire was much more major and completely torched the roof on what had been the former “Mission to Mars” Space Camp simulator.  The building itself has not been used in any capacity for years.

Robert Pearlman, collectSpace editor and Space Camp Hall of Fame inductee, posted a great overview of the event as it happened.

Local media has since posted up-to-date photos.  WHNT has aerial photos showing the damage.

MSFC, Space Camp to be Featured Tomorrow on Good Morning America

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Marshall Space Flight Center sent out an invite to its employees stating,

Marshall team members are invited to join ABC news for a special LIVE broadcast at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Thursday, Sept. 17, from 5:00-8:00 a.m. Participants must arrive no later than 5:00 a.m. and wear red shirts. ABC news is looking for a large crowd to be on TV in their audience. Parking will be provided near the entrance of the museum.

This broadcast will highlight Marshall Center’s contributions to human spaceflight.

And Space Camp just sent the following message:

Space Camp Good Morning America Email Content

There you have it!  Tune in tomorrow morning at 7:30am CDT to your local ABC affiliate!

2015 Space Camp Hall of Fame Induction Videos Available

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Hall of Fame 2015 Crest - SmallSpace 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:

2015 International Space Camp Videos Available

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International Space Camp LogoMost 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: